Richard Whitney

"Town and Country" magazine has named Richard Whitney one of America’s “best portraitists”. "Fine Arts Connoisseur" has called him one of the “giants in the field” of contemporary figurative painting. Whitney has won over forty regional and national awards and his paintings hang in over 750 collections throughout the United States and abroad. He studied with the noted Boston painter, R. H. Ives Gammell and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire. Whitney is the author of "Painting the Visual Impression" - a book which is used by thousands of artists world-wide.