CONWAY — Starting next week, the White Mountain Museum & Gallery in North Conway, in conjunction with the Conway Historical Society, will be hosting a special exhibition by the founder of the White Mountain School of Art, Benjamin Champney. The show will include over 50 paintings, as well as items from Champney’s life, many of which have never been displayed publicly before.
The exhibition, running from Feb. 13-March 1, spans Champney’s long career, with one early painting from 1843 and another from 1907. The earliest painting in the show was painted in the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1843, when Champney was just 26 years old. The painting was purchased by a Boston merchant, Lt. Col. William Winchester, and brought back to Boston, in July 1844. It was then exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum.
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