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Wilford Seymour Conrow
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Portraitist Wilford Conrow was one of few painters who had not only a college degree, but business experience as well. After attending Princeton, and a year at the New York School of Art, he became secretary and director of a family wholesale paper business for eight years. He then studied at the Academie Julian in Paris under Laurens, Morisset, and P. Tudor-Hart. World War I interrupted his progress, and after attending training camp at Plattsburg, he was commissioned in the Engineer Corps of the army. He was assigned to camouflage work and was sent to France with the A.E.F.
Among Conrows portraits include those of Dr. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, author of "The Great Chalice of Antioch," completed for presentation to the University of Upsala, Sweden, a clever study of the intellectual man sunk in a great chair of marvelous coppery brown; William Henry Goodyear, curator of the department of fine arts, the Brooklyn Museum; Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall and Dean Charles R. Gillette at Union Theological Seminary, New York; Charles E. Pellew, Seventh Viscount Exmouth; Governor J. Franklin Fort, State House at Trenton; Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton University; William Healey Dall of the Smithsonian Institution, in the Cosmos Club, Washington, with a brilliantly conceived background.
In many of Conrows portraits, one sees solid tones smoothly applied, with a simple tone of gray or brown. When looked at closely, a portrait might resemble a veritable tapestry or mosaic of many-colored bits. When painting beautiful women, Conrow had a knack of bringing to the surface the elusive personality of his subjects.
(Information on the biography above is based on writings from the book, "Contemporary American Portrait Painters," Illustrating and Describing the Work of Fifty Living Painters, by Cuthbert Lee.)
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