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Frederick E. Conway

1900-1973


Purcell OK PO Mural The Roundup Muralist Frederick E. Conway signature
Signature of Frederick E. Conway
TE photo, April 2009

Artist’s Bio

It would be hard to find an artist more connected to his native city. Born in 1900 in St. Louis Missouri, Frederick Conway graduated from high school and briefly worked in Chicago before returning home to take art lessons from a local sculptor.

He then made the artist’s obligatory trip to Europe, studying in France and visiting North Africa. He returned to enroll at St. Louis’ Washington University School of Fine Arts, joining the faculty there in 1924.

Regarded as one of the most prolific and successful artists in St. Louis, he began his career submitting sketches for Federal projects, winning his first commission with the mural shown here – The Round-up which was installed at the Purcell, Oklahoma post office in 1940.

Purcell OK PO Mural The Roundup
Purcell Oklahoma PO mural "The Roundup"
TE photo, April 2009

He participated in the 48 States Mural Competition of 1939 and he later did The Birth of Oklahoma, a Tulsa mural for which he was paid $25,000 – the highest price paid for a mural at that time.

Conway worked in a variety of media and gradually shifted his style from realism toward abstract art, but he never differentiated between painting and teaching, thus forging lifelong bonds with his students.

His relationship with Washington University’s School of the Fine Arts was to last for 46 years. He was made Professor Emeritus and left the school in 1970, dying of cancer three years later.

Purcell OK PO Mural The Roundup Detail
Purcell Oklahoma PO mural "The Roundup" detail
TE photo, April 2009

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