Donald Cowen (1920 – 1987) was an Australian-American artist, sculptor and scientific illustrator, whose work is featured in buildings and galleries in Australia and the United States.
[4] In 1950, Cowen and another ex-servicemen artist Quentin Hole undertook a road tour of Queensland,[5] exhibiting their art in towns such as Maryborough, Bundaberg, Mackay, Townsville, Proserpine.
[7][8][9] Cowen travelled to London and Paris to continue his studies in the early 1950s[10] and used this experience to design sets for the Twelfth Night Theatre’s production of the Mad Woman of Chaillot in 1952.
[15][16] He continued to experiment in different media and his sculpture Light Moment was installed in the foyer of the University of Arizona, Tucson’s College of Optical Sciences.
His painting Archimedes and the Battle of Syracuse[18] was commissioned by Professor Aiden Meinel and hangs in the Albert B. Weaver Sciences-Engineering Library at the University of Arizona.