Shelley ReedOsprey I (after Audubon)2023
2023
About the Item
- Creator:Shelley Reed (American)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bozeman, MT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU498311978132
Shelley Reed
Shelley Reed was born in New York City in 1958 and currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Brandeis University and graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1984. Reed has shown nationally in both galleries and museums such as Danese/Corey in New York City, Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina and Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York City. Furthermore, Reed’s works are in several public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of Chicago, Fidelity Investment Corporation, Boston and National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming. She is the recipient of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Travelling Fellowship in 2013 and Maud Morgan Award from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2005. Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly 17th and 18th-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar.
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