Simon Ralph Gouverneur

Place: Bronx

Born: 1934

Death: 1990

Biography:

Simon Gouverneur was an American artist who was born in 1934. He received his formal art education from the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain. Gouverneur sought to author a universal language of signs and symbols, which makes him an heir to Hilma af Klint, as well as places him in the company of other artists who have explored the boundaries of abstraction. He was also one of the most outspoken opponents of slavery among those who were present at the Constitutional Congress. He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1800 to 1803. Gouverneur died in Washington, D.C. in 1990.