Jim Shirley

Canadian
Jim Shirley is a Canadian painter.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an acrylic painting work attributed to Jim Shirley was C$88 - paid for "Ice Field" at Saskatchewan NAC in Regina on Sun, Mar 24, 2024.
ArtValue.ca has one auction art sale record for their acrylic painting results, with prices in the range of C$50 to C$100.

Jim Shirley was born and raised in New York. As an African American he was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance movement, and studied art at the Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn. After graduating, he moved to Nova Scotia in 1971. At this time he was perfecting his haunting monotype print style, culminating in this first major solo exhibition at the Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery in 1977. In 1980 Shirley moved to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, as an arts and crafts development officer, and remained in the north for thirty years. In 2000, Mount Saint Vincent University held a major retrospective of Jim Shirley's work.

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