With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
James H.P. Conlon
Painting/Drawing
1894 – 1962
- Biography/Description of Work
James Henry Phillip Conlon was born in Meriden. According to his 1917 draft card, Conlon was a clerk at the Hartford Rubber Works, living with his mother and his siblings in Hartford. During World War I he served in the Army Air Corps, producing aerial maps of France. Back in the States, at 25 he had begun to work for a newspaper as an artist. He was married in the early 1930s and living in Branford (by 1942 his family had moved to Indian Neck Road). In 1939, he painted two portraits for the Federal Arts Project (FAP). Conlon helped found the Guilford Art League and was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Association of Connecticut Artists.
- Sources view
- Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010; Ancestry.com. 1900, 1920, 1940 United States Federal Census; http://ctstatelibrary.org/conlon-james-h-p/
- Associated Resource(s)