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For decades after graduation, he was employed as a successful commercial designer in the print and advertising industries. Throughout this phase of his career, during evenings and weekends, he continued to pursue his passion for sculptured portraits and stone carvings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6200af2a8578964b61efcf7e/abdd9e4e-e4ca-4dc6-b0af-133e867d1ac9/about-house.jpg About the Artist It was not until he was in his fifties that he dedicated himself full-time to ceramics. In the early 1950s, he purchased a kiln to produce his sculptures in terra cotta, converting the garage behind his house in the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid to a working ceramics studio. Conover commented, “Sometime in 1958, while wedging a block of clay, a jug shape came to mind, so I added a neck and handle...hollowed it out and then fired it...the next spring entering it in the May Show”, Cleveland’s premier event for craft, calling it Pottery Form A due to its method of production. The piece won a purchase award from the Cleveland Museum of Art. After this success, he began to regularly submit pottery to the May Show and other juried exhibitions, consistently winning prizes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6200af2a8578964b61efcf7e/b9c68f1c-a5b0-43d2-8963-250300277e3d/IMG_0024.jpg About the Artist During this experimental period, he produced animal sculptures, including the Conover Cat; clay bust sculptures; various housewares (ashtrays, plates, bowls, planters, jugs); and bottles in a variety of forms, surface decoration, and neck sizes. Most of these early pieces were sold through art shows and art exhibitions, or sold directly to collectors. In addition to the May Show, the most important catalyst for his career was 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. The stoneware bottle showcased in the exhibit, Ulua (1968), a pedestal bottle patterned with lines, was ultimately purchased by the Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts, Racine, WI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6200af2a8578964b61efcf7e/fe76352b-8079-483e-8051-979d7cba5e0f/filmStills_8_1633039852.png About the Artist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6200af2a8578964b61efcf7e/fdfe9d91-d0b2-4be4-baa8-1734b16535c6/back-catalog.jpeg About the Artist - Are these handmade, monolithic bottles ancient or modern abstractions? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6200af2a8578964b61efcf7e/5de59b57-5318-4065-afc9-be311d527055/cc-signature.png About the Artist https://www.claudeconoverarchives.com/the-archives daily 0.75 2022-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6200af2a8578964b61efcf7e/ee7f904a-5899-4d00-a5bf-616c61fea7c5/cerds-vert.jpg The Archives - 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