Shirley Cleary
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Shirley Cleary
Shirley Cleary was born in St. Louis, Missouri and received a BFA degree from Washington University, St. Louis and a MFA degree from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She moved to Montana from Washington, D.C. in 1971 and started fly fishing her first summer in the West. She met Pat Lilly who encouraged her to paint some fly fishing images for her gallery in Bud Lilly’s Trout Shop in West Yellowstone and she was asked to participate in various Trout Unlimited art auctions. This was the first of a 26 year career which has allowed her to combine her love of fly fishing and painting.
Her work has been profiled in several articles in “Wildlife Art News” and the “Fly fishers Magazine” and in such magazines as “American Artist”, “Art West”, “InformArt”, “US Art”, “The Artist’s Magazine”, “Big Sky Journal” and Disegnare & Dipingere”. She is listed in “Who’s Who in American Art” and in Samuel’s “Contemporary Western Artists”.
She received many awards for her work including being selected for the 1992 Association of Northwest Steelheaders stamp/print and the 1990 Oregon Trout stamp/print and for several Arts for the Parks competitions. She has participated in many invitational exhibitions across the United States including the Easton (MD) Academy of the Arts’ “The Art of Flyfishing -A Visual History”, the Missouri Historical Society’s “America in Paint and Bronze” and “Women Artists and the West” at the Tucson Museum of the Arts.
Shirley continues to participate in Trout Unlimited fund raising auctions. She still finds time to fly fish with her husband, Frank Cooper, current state chairman of Montana state council of Trout Unlimited. She is on the board of the Pat Barnes-Missouri River Chapter of Trout Unlimited and serves on the advisory board of the state council and last year was appointed to the Montana State Fisheries Improvement Program Review Panel.
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