Early Life and Artistic Training Born in Pleasant City, Ohio, around 1925 or 1926, Tom Rowlands was a man whose life would eventually be defined by the lines and colors of modernism. Though his beginnings were in a small Ohio town, his creative interests quickly pulled him toward the bustling energy of New York City. Between 1943 and 1950, he immersed himself in the rigorous academic environments of the city, seeking to refine his ski…