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1907-1994
Claude Conover was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1907. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to attend the Cleveland School of Art and studied both painting and sculpture, graduating in 1929. For decades after graduation, he was employed as a successful commercial designer in the print and advertising industries while continuing to pursue his passion for sculptured portraits and stone carvings. It was not until he was in his fifties that he dedicated himself full-time to ceramics. A prolific creator, he made approximately 4000 vessels by the time he retired in 1990. His work was a part of the Smithsonian Institution’s seminal exhibition, Objects: USA (1969), which toured twenty-two museums across the US and eleven cities in Europe. Viewed by over half a million people, Objects: USA elevated craft to a collected art form.
Education:
Cleveland School of Art
In Collections:
Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art
