[2][3] Conway was part a community of 20th Century St. Louis artists that included Ed Boccia, Fred Green Carpenter, Rudolph Edward Torrini, Herb Cummings, Werner Drewes, Gustav Goetsch, Bill Fett, Phil Sultz, Jan Sultz, and Bob Cassilly.

[4][5] Conway was one of the teachers of Billy Morrow Jackson, and was "a close friend and early supporter of German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann".

[6] Conway's mural, The Roundup, a 1940 oil on canvas painting, hangs in the United States Post Office of Purcell, Oklahoma.

It was procured by the United States Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture as part of a 48-state competition to create murals for post offices.

[7][8] Another Conway mural, The Movement of Time from Redman to Truman (1967), is in the Richard Bolling Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri.