With a fussy child on her hands, Mrs. Sally Lovely gave her daughter Candace a red crayon to calm and entertain her. That one act started a life time of imagination and creation for Candace Whittemore Lovely. Her passion for art has continued to flourish and shape her life choices. In high school she led a strike to keep the art room open. She would skip study hall to go home and create in her dad’s workshop. An art major in college, she was awed by Winslow Homer’s works. She asked one professor, “who can teach me to paint like him?” He replied, “NO ONE!”
That didn’t stop Candace. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in art and a fifth-year teaching certificate, she moved to Boston. Her husband took her to the best art Gallery on Newbury Street. There Bill Vose recommended Candace study with the Boston School, America’s oldest continuing school of painting. The Boston School developed her under a philosophy based on impressionistic observation of light and color. Candace eventually owned a Fenway Studio where John Singer Sargent once painted. Her career has flourished as she has earned awards and Hall of Fame honors. In 1991 Lovely painted the official portrait of Barbara Bush in the First Lady’s Garden at the White House. She is a University of Vermont Most Prominent Alumna and a Copley Society Master. Candace has been referred to as “the top American living female impressionist artist” and “The Grand Dame of Boston Painters”. Sold throughout the world, many of her works have depicted life and landscapes from New England and the Low Country. Her paintings capture the moment. Whether it’s a polo match, an old man shucking peas, umbrellas at the beach, or a Vermont pasture, her work embraces the scene and use light and color to express life and love.
2017
Lifelong Learning
“Sketching from Life in Paint Markers” Lecture (120min), Hilton Head, SC
Lifelong Learning
“Painting First Lady Barbara Bush” Lecture (120min), Hilton Head, SC
Lifelong Learning
“The Ten, American Impressionist” Lecture (120min),Hilton Head, SC
Lifelong Learning
“French Impressionism” Lecture (120min), Hilton Head, SC
2016
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Fresh Paint, “Morning Sail Boat Blues”
The French Bakery
“Love and Politics” , Shelter Cove HHI
The French Bakery
Shelter Cove HHI, “Clubs and Bars”
The French Bakery
Shelter Cove HHI “Still Life Paintings”
The French Bakery
“Fair Women” Shelter Cove HHI
“Waiting for Santa with Bluffton”
At Annabel Lee Hammet’s House, Calhoun Street, Bluffton, SC
Barnes&Noble
Author Event Hilton Head Island, SC
Bluffton Art and Seafood Festival
“Porches” At Annabel Lee Hammet’s House, Calhoun Street, Bluffton, SC
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Fresh Paint, “Houdini Jumped Here”
2014
The Pine Street Inn
Donated the image, “Evening Snow-Copley Plaza” for their 2014 Christmas card.
Bluffton Art and Seafood Festival
“Kitchen Bouquets” At Annabel Lee Hammet’s House, Calhoun Street, Bluffton, SC
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, “Mount Vernon and Charles”, Fresh Paint
Dick Blick
Savannah, GA “Cre8ive Figures” With Annabel Lee Hammet Jan 1-29
2013
The Pine Street Inn
Donated the image, “Garden Skaters”, for their 2014 Christmas card.
Bluffton Art and Seafood Festival
“Clubs and Bars” At Annabel Lee Hammet’s House October
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Boston Marathon Angels”
Candace Whittemore Lovely Museum
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
“Art and Politics” solo show
2012
ARTworks
Beaufort Town Center, Beaufort, South Carolina
“God Bless America from Candace Lovely” solo show
First Citizens Bank
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
“God Bless America from Candace Lovely” solo show
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
2011
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Frog Pond”
2010
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Car Wash”
2009
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Fresh Paint” live painting and exhibition
2007
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Fresh Paint” live painting and exhibition
Aqua Gill, the Jeff Katon Gallery
“Romancing the Shore”
2006
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Fresh Paint” live painting and exhibition
2005
“Shoe in the New Year”
The Main Street Youth Theatre
The Onyx Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
“Fashion: Style Throughout History” exhibition
The River Club
Kennebunkport, Maine
“Charles Street Hate”
Southern Vermont Art Center
Manchester, Vermont
“Venus Visits Vermont” solo exhibition
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Fresh Paint” live painting and exhibition
The J. Fust Community Library
Boca Grande, Florida
“Dreams of Fair Women II” donated by Mrs. Barrett Scudder
Hilton Head Library
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
“Sketches Around Town” exhibition
2004
Farnsworth Museum
Rockland, Maine
“Four O’Clock Milk” added to permanent collection
Hilton Head Art League
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Studio Tour September
Olivier’s Restaurant
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Guest Artist
Pearlz
Bluffton, South Carolina
“Movie Star Collection” exhibition
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
“Fresh Paint” live painting and exhibition
Kennebunkport River Club
Kennebunkport, Maine
“Kingdom of Peace”
Art Academy of Hilton Head
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Teacher for two terms, 2003-2004
The Harvard Club of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
The Copley Masters Show
The Red Piano Art Gallery
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
“Good and Plenty, Candace Lovely” solo show
Hilton Head Art League
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Guest Speaker, “How the History of Art Shaped the Boston School”
Guest Speaker, “My Sketchbook”
2000
The Copley Society
Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Copley Masters Invitational Show
Collection of Ambassador Phil Lader
US Embassy, London, England
