Clay McGaughy is a San Antonio artist who received his degree in art from the University of Texas..
He also has a diploma from the Famous Artists’ Course for illustration.
His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S., including the Grand Central Gallery and the Crossroads of Sport in New York. He has been a member of the San Antonio Watercolor group, the Coppini group, the San Antonio Art League, the Society of Animal Artists, and is a past president of the Texas Watercolor Society. His work is in the collection of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, and he was the San Antonio Art League’s “Artist of the Year” in 1976.
He formerly taught summer seminars at the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram, Texas, and for several years was invited to show in Game Coin International’s bi-annual wildlife art exhibit in San Antonio.
Clay was featured in the January 1978 issue of Southwestern Art and has done covers and illustrations for Texas Game and Fish, True West, Texas Highways, American Artist, The Artists’ Magazine, Progressive Farmer, and Outdoor Life. Selections of his paintings are included in the books, Texas Hill Country and Pecos to Rio Grande, published by Texas A & M Press.
In 1980, Clay was commissioned to do a painting for the Gulf Coast Conservation Association’s series of limited edition fishing prints. He was selected by Ducks Unlimited to be the 2002 Texas Artist of the year. His popular series ,”Reflections”, and subsequent giclee prints of wildlife and the outdoors continue to be published. claymcgaughyart.com