Wilford Conrow
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Wilford Seymour Conrow (1880-1957) was an American artist, most noted for portrait painting. He married Lyra Millette.
Wildford Conrow was born in South Orange, New Jersey on June 14, 1880. He studied business at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn,[1] graduated with a degree in business[2] from Princeton University in 1901, and, for eight years, worked as secretary and director of a wholesale paper business.[3] Then, from 1911 to 1916, he lived in Paris, studying art at the Académie Julian and exhibiting work in the 1914 Paris Salon.[4] Interrupted by World War I, Conrow left his studies to serve the U.S. camouflage department in Europe, designing concealment for men and machinery.[2] While serving in Paris, he met Lyra Millette, an American Red Cross director, and his future wife.[4]
