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Sherry Harrington (Texas, 20/21 century)
Painter Sherry Harrington, a native of Texas, has been drawing for as long as she can remember. By the time she was twelve, she was displaying and selling her work at local outdoor art shows and over time she bought her first car with her earnings. She later did commercial work for RCA records portraying singers including Charley Pride and Elvis Presley. In her fourth year of competition in the Bosque County Conservatory of Fine Art Show in Clifton, Texas she was awarded the four top awards: Best of Show, Artist of Choice, Children's Choice, and the Jones Fellowship Award of $5,000. Sherry is primary self taught.
She works in oil and the subjects she has painted range from Americana and Cowboys and scenes of the American West to what she has become most dedicated to: Native American people. Her focus is now almost entirely on capturing the Native people she has come to know through painting them in her carefully worked intimate portraits. Every year she and her husband travel to reservations in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and South Dakota where she reconnects with her previous models and gets to know her new ones.
In 2004 her portraits were hung in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame as part of the show "Heart of the West", an invitational art exhibition featuring 19 of the country's top female Western artists. Her work has been featured in numerous publications.