Abstract Composition. Oil and gouache on cream wove paper. 450x600 mm; 17 3/4x23 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto. 1959.
Conover was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Philadelphia Museum School before moving to New York where he attended the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum School. His first solo exhibition was held at Laurel Gallery, New York in 1950 and before long Conover became noticed for his flat, angular abstractions. Only a year after being represented in The Museum of Modern Art's "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America," Conover was lauded by one critic as "one of our most talented newcomers." Conover exhibited at the New Gallery, New York and his prints were exhibited at The MoMA in the 1953 "Young American Printmakers" exhibition before showing his paintings at Zabriskie Gallery in 1960.
