Richard Whitney

Richard Whitney

LACONIA — Richard Whitney is an American painter, author and educator whose portraits and landscapes hang in more than 800 public and private collections worldwide, including the Pentagon, Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities, and the Catholic University of Portugal.

He will give a lecture at the Taylor Community on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Woodside Building.

Town & Country called Whitney one of “the giants of the field” of figurative painting. The artist has received more than 40 regional and national awards, including an honorary doctor of fine arts from the University of New Hampshire in 2015.

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