Background
Cleary was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. She had an identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, who is also an artist.
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Manon Cleary
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After studying in Rome where she developed an interest in Caravaggio, Cleary studied at Washington University in Saint Louis and Temple University.
Career
She settled in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1974 and taught at the University of the District of Columbia for thirty years. Cleary"s works have been exhibited worldwide including in a solo ten-year retrospective at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1985 and in 2006 in a career retrospective at the Washington Arts Museum at Edison Place. In 1997, one of her paintings at an erotic art auction was featured on an episode of Home Box Office"s Real Sex.
Cleary had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and died at her home in Washington, District of Columbia She was 69.
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United States