Shirley Pettibone

{{short description|American artist, 1936-2011}}

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| birth_place = Bakersfield, California

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| death_place = Los Angeles, California

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| alma_mater = Otis College of Art and Design, Principia College

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Shirley Pettibone (1936 – 2011) was an American painter known for painting, and cloth sculpture.

Pettibone was born in Bakersfield, California in 1936. She attended Principia College and the Otis Art Institute.{{cite web |title=Robert Hansen, Shirley Pettibone, Donald Haskin, and Win Ng |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/robert-hansen-shirley-pettibone-donald-haskin-and-win-ng-244030/ |website=Artforum |access-date=25 April 2025 |date=1 August 1963}} She was married to fellow artist Richard Pettibone.{{cite web |title=Works – Shirley Pettibone |url=https://emuseum.delart.org/people/2029/shirley-pettibone/objects |website=Delaware Art Museum |access-date=25 April 2025}} The marriage ended in divorce.{{cite web |last1=Sandomir |first1=Richard |title=Richard Pettibone, Master of the Artistic Miniature, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/arts/richard-pettibone-dead.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 April 2025 |date=27 September 2024}} She died on February 23, 2011{{cite web |title=Shirley Pettibone |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Shirley_Pettibone/130712/Shirley_Pettibone.aspx |website=AskArt |access-date=25 April 2025}} in Los Angeles.{{cite web |title=Bio and Publications |url=https://shirleypettibone.com/bio-and-publications/ |website=Shirley Pettibone |access-date=25 April 2025 |date=7 December 2022}}

Pettibone's work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum{{cite web |title=Lucy Lippard - Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists |url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/57416/ |website=Printed Matter |access-date=25 April 2025 |language=en}} and the 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone also at the Aldrich.{{cite web |title=52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone |url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/52-artists-revisiting-a-feminist-milestone |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |access-date=25 April 2025 |language=en}}

Her work is in the collection of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum{{cite web |title=Shirley Pettibone |url=https://thealdrich.org/page/shirley-pettibone |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |access-date=25 April 2025 |language=en}} and the Delaware Art Museum,