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American landscape and portrait artist, Candace Whitemore Lovely, was born March 15, 1953 in [Vermont|Springfield, VT].

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Candace Whitemore Lovely graduated from the [|University of Vermont] with a B.S. in Art after graduating from the [|The Forman School] in Litchfield, CT.

Lovely maintains a studio on [|Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.]

She is a distinguished member of several art organizations including The Copley Society of Boston, America's oldest art association. After receiving her third award in the Society's juried shows, she was accorded the designation "Copley Master" in the summer of 1988. She The Boston Globe once designated Candace "the Grand Dame of Boston painters." She painted the official portrait of Fenway Park in 1999 and had the privilege of painting the official White House portrait of Mrs. Barbara Bush.

Candace spent her early years as a painter with the masters of the [|Boston School of painting], the school that developed the first [|American Impressionists]: [|Frank Weston Benson], [|Joseph DeCamp], and [|Edmund C. Tarbell]. She has studied with prominent artist Robert Cormier and Paul Ingbretson, a president of the [|Guild of Boston Artists].

Lovely's vast body of work represents her unique vision, technical ability and boundless energy. The work produced on her well-known painting holidays to romantic coastal locations has captured the hearts and minds of an ever-growing list of patrons. Her works of fine art, mostly oil paintings, represent her romantic vision and technical ability, giving viewers a pleasant view of contemporary life.