Studios at Crescent Pond

Born in 1946, Dr. Richard Whitney studied with the eminent Boston painter, R. H. Ives Gemmell, for five years. Richard graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1968 and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 2015. He has won over 50 regional and national awards as well as three grants from the Greenshields Foundation of Montreal. His work hangs in the Anchorage Museum of Art and History; the Newark Museum; the Pentagon; Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Universities and the Catholic University of Portugal. In 2017, he received the Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award from the State of New Hampshire.