Artist, collector, Fort Worth Circle member, and Old Jail Art Center co-founder are just a few descriptions associated with William P. “Bill” Bomar (1919–1991). Bomar was born and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, though claimed by Albany, the hometown of his mother and extended family. His lifelong artistic passion began at the age of seven. He studied painting at the Cranbrook Art Academy (1940–41) and later individually with painters John Sloan, Hans Hoffman, and Amédée Ozenfant. Bomar lived in Texas and New York and then moved permanently to Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.
Bomar’s paintings and drawings often included the traditional subject matter of landscape, portrait, and still life. Yet, the styles for these subjects varied over his artistic career from purposeful application to loose and expressionistic application of various media. Simultaneously, Bomar used a mixture of these approaches to create works that incorporated mystic symbols and inner fantasy. Upon examination of his large body of work, he appeared more intent on experimentation of media and subject than establishing a personal or identifiable artistic “style.”
The surreal worlds manifested in his works resist depicting logic and clarity or recognizable reality. Instead, they represent personal visions of a universe that are difficult to translate, but that contain familiar images that speak to the viewer in an alternative language of his own creation.
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