Martin Bowden

Summary

Martin Bowden was an American artist known for his large-scale carvings and paintings along the walls of Purgatoire Canyon near Trinidad, Colorado. Bowden left school when he was 14 and started working in the coal mines, later working as a cowboy and homesteading before he began making art on the walls of Purgatory Canyon over the course of 40 years. The canyon came to be known as Painted Canyon.