Richard Whitney Awarded Honorary Doctorate
January 19, 2016
ARC Living Master™ Richard Whitney was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for lifetime achievement by the University of New Hampshire at commencement last May before a crowd of 25,000. Whitney graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of New Hampshire in 1968. He studied with Sidney F. Willis and with the eminent Boston painter, R. H. Ives Gammell, for five years. | |
Whitney is nationally known for his realistic portraits and landscapes. Town and Country magazine recently named him one of the top dozen portrait painters in America. Fine Art Connoisseur called him one of “the giants of the field” of figurative painting. His paintings hang in over 750 public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Whitney has won over 40 regional and national awards. To view his gallery on ARC, click here.. |