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|image = Sir Alan Bowness, 2016. Photo Gautier Deblonde..jpg
|caption = Bowness in 2016
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|birth_place = Finchley, Middlesex, England
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|death_place = London, England
|occupation =
|title = Director of the Tate Gallery
|term = 1980–1988
|education = Downing College, Cambridge Courtauld Institute of Art
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Sir Alan BownessCBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) was a British art historian, art critic, and museum director. He was the director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988.
