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If you read the stories about her, from which we’ve drawn this obituary, they seem to sing a lot of songs—a kind of alluring, fragile vitality, a siren song, of a woman with an operatic first name and an Irish-sounding last name. The rats, the friends, the strong and continued output of work made her a Washington original, a kind of scarred patron saint of struggling artists.

Press

One lawyer who isn’t a shark

February 5, 2021 | The Washington Post

In the galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror

April 30, 2016 | Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post

Art review: ‘Washington Art Matters: 1940s-1980s’ at American University Museum

July 18, 2013 | Michael O’Sullivan | The Washington Post

Galleries: VisArts at Rockville marks 25 years

December 20, 2012 | Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post

Paul Feinberg’s ‘The Constant Artist’ at Katzen Arts Center

May 25, 2012 | Roger Catlin | The Washington Post

Manon Cleary Dies at 69

May 3, 2012 | Gary Tischler | The Georgetowner

“Washington Realism” at Carroll Square Gallery

April 13, 2012 | Louis Jacobson | Washington City Paper

Compelling fixture of D.C. art scene

December 4, 2011 | Matt Schudel | The Washington Post

Manon Cleary, alluring D.C. artist and free spirit, dies at 69

December 3, 2011 | Matt Schudel | The Washington Post

Manon Cleary, 1942-2011

December 3, 2011 | Kriston Capps | Washington City Paper

Manon Cleary’s Long History with the Patron Saint of Adams Morgan—Rats

April 29, 2010 | Jonathan L. Fischer | Washington City Paper

Manon Cleary: Bicycle Musician Artist’s Rats “Look Like Dinosaur Embryos with Tails”

April 23, 2010 | Jonathan L. Fischer | Washington City Paper

‘Muslim Women,’ Sans Context

December 21, 2007 | Jessica Dawson | The Washington Post

Manon Cleary at DCAC

October 9, 2007 | F. Lennox Campello | Daily Campello Art News

Needle in the Haystack

September 24, 2004 | Philip Barlow | Washington City Paper

Queen of Beverly Court

July 2, 2004 | John Metcalfe | Washington City Paper

‘New Talent’ at Signal 66: Well, That’s Half Right

August 17, 2000 | Ferdinand Protzman | The Washington Post

Flower Power

March 26, 1999 | Michael O’Sullivan | The Washington Post

Manon Cleary’s Art of Pain

April 17, 1998 | John Devault | Washington City Paper

Not Your Ordinary Apartment: Interior by Manon Cleary

February 19, 1998 | Lee Fleming | The Washington Post

Body Language; In ‘The Figure Interpreted,’ Artists Place Messages in the Medium

February 12, 1998 | Ferdinand Protzman | The Washington Post

The Museum Is Their Muse; They’re the National Gallery School – Local Artists Who Study Before The Masters

November 9, 1997 | Richard Paul | The Washington Post

Shannon captures vibrant, joyous life

October 8, 1997 | John Dorsey | The Baltimore Sun

The Strength of Sampson

February 22, 1997 | Ferdinand Protzman | The Washington Post

Galleries: The Life That Flows From Wood

November 12, 1994 | Lee Fleming | The Washington Post

Art: Beneath The Fig Leaf – At Clark & Co., ‘True Phallacy’ Takes a Look at a Symbol of Power

December 4, 1993 | Paul Richard | The Washington Post

Jacob Kainen, Abstractly

October 23, 1987 | Pamela Kessler | The Washington Post

‘Tough Realism’ at GWU

October 23, 1987 | Pamela Kessler | The Washington Post

Women in Shadow; At Tartt, Watson’s Haunting Sculptures

March 21, 1987 | Richard Paul | The Washington Post

Portraits of the Artists – Revealed on Canvas, Disguised in Person

June 19, 1985 | Mary Battiata | The Washington Post

‘Metarealities’: Pretty Perversion and Bureaucrat Brushwork

March 13, 1980 | Paul Richard | The Washington Post

Galleries: Compelling Works, a White Parody

February 22, 1975 | Meryle Secrest | The Washington Post

Artful Contrasts

June 13, 1973 | Andrea Cohen | The Washington Post

A Sense of Peace and Sharing

January 17, 1973 | Paul Richard | The Washington Post

Videos

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Manon Cleary 1942 – 2011

Manon Cleary Memorial Video. Photographs by Tom Wolff, Paul Feinberg, Steven Kijek and family archives. Sound: Philip Glass “I’m Going to Make the Cake”. Assembled by Yar Koporulin and Steven Kijek. (Published on May 13, 2012)

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