Delbert "Sleepy" Read celebrated his 90th birthday recently with a host of family and friends at the Liberty Hotel in Cleburne, Texas. "Sleepy" still paints most days at The Wright Place. He has a small gallery there with his easel and paints set up where shoppers can watch him paint. He has painted hundreds of bluebonnet scenes as well as western art and particularly likes to do abstracts in bold colors.
Most of the elementary and middle schools in Cleburne have large murals in their cafeterias done by Sleepy. Usually he incorporates the school's mascot in the painting. Recently he helped his son Stylle paint a huge mural across from The Wright Place depicting the history of Cleburne. Both his sons and brothers are also artists.
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