Frederick Conway (artist)

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Frederick Conway
Portrait of Fred Conway 8601983 .jpg
Portrait of Fred Conway by Max Beckmann
Born1900 (1900)
St. Louis
Died1973 (aged 72–73)
St. Louis

Frederick Conway (1900–1973) was an American artist.[1]

Early life and education[]

Conway was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1900.[1] Conway studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts,[2] and then moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, and at the Academies Moderne and La Grande Chaumiere.[2][3]

Art career[]

Conway was part a community of 20th Century St. Louis artists that included Ed Boccia, , Rudolph Edward Torrini, Herb Cummings, Werner Drewes, , , , , and Bob Cassilly.

Conway taught at the art school of Washington University in St. Louis from 1929 to 1970.[4][5] Conway was one of the teachers of Billy Morrow Jackson, and was "a close friend and early supporter of German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann".[5]

Public murals[]

Conway's mural, The Roundup, a 1940 oil on canvas painting, hangs in the United States Post Office of Purcell, Oklahoma. It was procured by the United States Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture as part of a 48-state competition to create murals for post offices.[6][7]

Another Conway mural, The Movement of Time from Redman to Truman (1967), is in the Richard Bolling Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri.[8][9]

His 70-foot long mural Oklahoma Land Run is installed in Tulsa, Oklahoma's First Place Tower.[10] Conmway was chosen to create the 1950 mural through a $25,000 USD competition run by the First National Bank.[10][11]

Collections[]

Conway's work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[1] and the Kemper Art Museum.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Fred Conway | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. ^ a b "Fred Conway". St. Louis Mecantile Library.
  3. ^ inauthor:"University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). College of Fine and Applied Arts" - Google Search.
  4. ^ Louis, City Art Museum of St (1965). Bulletin. The Museum.
  5. ^ a b From the St. Louis Modern catalogue: St. Louis's Modern Murals. 1 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Post Office Mural - Purcell OK". Living New Deal.
  7. ^ Park, Marlene; Markowitz, Gerald E. (1984). Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-87722-348-1.
  8. ^ Richard Bolling Federal Building, Kansas City, MO.
  9. ^ Jones, Richard M.; Weitman, Herb (14 January 1968). "A Wall of History". St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Newspapers.com. p. Page 206 -.
  10. ^ a b Overall, Michael. "Michael Overall: Tulsa's forgotten masterpiece needs a new home where people can see it". Tulsa World.
  11. ^ "WINS $25,000 ASSIGNMENT; Fred Conway of Washington U. to Paint Tulsa Bank Mural". The New York Times. 7 November 1950.
  12. ^ "Fred Conway | Kemper Art Museum". www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu.

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