Robert Conover

Robert Fremont Conover studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum School. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' annuals (1952-60), the Carnegie Institute of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art annuals (1950-54).

His work was included in the major exhibit Painters of the Twentieth Century at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1990s) and is also in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Printmaker and painter Robert Conover studied at the Philadelphia Museum School, the Barnes Foundation, the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He taught for many years at the Lenox School and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. He was a member of the National Academy of Design and is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.

His wonderful images of derelict structures are both realist and abstract. These images often show images of the city rarely seen.