FRED CONWAY (AMERICAN, 1900-1973)
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Watercolor on paper, signed lower right. Rolling landscape, houses dotting the patchworked hillsides. Behind glass, gilt frame.About the Artist: Conway was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. His advanced studies led him to Paris for the Académie Julian, the Academies Moderne and La Grande Chaumiere.Conway was held in high regard amongst formidable contemporaries of mid-century St. Louis art - including Ed Boccia, Fred Green Carpenter, Rudolph Edward Torrini, Herb Cummings, Werner Drewes, Gustav Goetsch, William Fett, and Bob Cassilly. He instructed the art school of Washington University in St. Louis from 1929 to 1970 where he taught Billy Morrow Jackson and became friend and supporter of legendary German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann. Sight: 17" height, 22" width; frame: 20" height, 25" width
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