Robert Conover was a painter, printmaker, and educator born in Trenton, New Jersey on 3 July 1920. He had his art studies at the Barnes Foundation as a teenager and enrolled in the Philadelphia Museum School in 1938. However, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted for service during the Second World War. After the war, Conover enrolled in the Art Students League in New York, where he would make his first prints. In recognition of his skills, he was awarded a Shiva Scholarship in 1948 which allowed him to study at the Brooklyn Museum School.

Conover had his first exhibition in 1949 after winning the New Talent contest in New York. A year later his works would be included in the Whitney Museum’s annual exhibition of Contemporary Painting. He would then venture into education in 1957, teaching at the New School for Social Research in New York; later, he would teach at the Lenox School and the Brooklyn Museum School. In 1966, he became an instructor at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, teaching printmaking.

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