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Candace Whittemore Lovely (born March 15, 1953) is an American artist whose body of work features an Impressionistic view of contemporary life.

Life
Born in Springfield, Vermont, Lovely grew up with craft supplies in the house—her family made thing instead of buying them. In addition to her mother being an artist, both of Candace's grandparents painted, and her grandfather and father were both engineers. Lovely comes from a family with an academic pedigree—her father attended [|Dartmouth] and [|MIT], her grandmothers attended [|Smith College] and [|Radcliffe], her grandfathers attended the [|University of Vermont] and [|Harvard].

Lovely was voted one of University of Vermont's most prominent alumni and is a member of the [|Forman School] Hall of Fame. Lovely always knew she wanted to study art despite her struggle with [|dyslexia] in school. Lovely maintains a studio on [|Hilton Head Island], South Carolina. Before moving to Hilton Head in 1991, she and her late husband, Dr. Donald Whittemore, lived in [|Kennebunkport, Maine], where she also maintained a studio and met her most famous patron, former First Lady [|Barbara Bush].