Collection: Cawdrey, Nancy Dunlop

Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey is a colorist with a strong sense of design, whether she is creating a signature Western piece, a colorful floral, or a vibrant wildlife painting. She is an avid plein air oil painter, and though she explores many mediums, she is best known for her paintings on silk.

Cawdrey’s ambitious Forever Glacier: The Legacy Project, for which she created eighteen pieces of all the large mammals of Glacier National Park and four pieces depicting the small mammals, was exhibited at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, and on view at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, from October 2021 through March 2022.

A founding member of the Russell Skull Society of artists, and has regularly participated in the C.M. Russell Museum’s Russell Sale, the Hockaday Museum’s A Timeless Legacy show, and the Phippen Museum Miniature Masterpiece show and has shown across the country, including at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Gilcrease Museum.

Nancy is represented by Cawdrey Gallery in Whitefish, Montana, West Lives On Contemporary Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Big Horn Galleries in Cody, Wyoming, and Tubac, Arizona.