The Fine Arts Collection currently on View in the Library

Gertrude Torrans

Whitney Homestead

Shelley Chaarbonneau

  Westminster cracker factory


Painting at the door of the Children's Room (right side)
       
E. Thor Carlson 

  "Crock of Gold" characters from book by James Stephens

Paintings in the Kendig Room

Beaman, G.W. Beaman

Mount Monadnock from Mount Wachusett".  signed lower left. dated 1891. oil on canvas.  27 3/4" x 37 3/4".

E. Thor Carlson

The Leavenworth Farm 

Rickey Coombs
                                                  
  Stanley Kendig
                                                                                                 
Over the fireplace

William S. Bucklin (1851-1928)

Wachusett Mountain and Meeting house pond  

B. Cosby

  A wooded landscape

Paintings of Deacon Robert Peckham on the main floor

   Westminster Village (center, entry wall)

                                          
  Timothy Doty, his wife and son Pearson, painted circa 1835 (west wall to the left of window)
        
Timothy was proprieter of the 1st Westminster Hotel.  He also ran a store, and after his death in 1835,

the store was referred to as "Widow Doty's store."  The building was moved from

Main Street to Rt 2A.  "Widow Doty" married Milton Joslin, who made saddles and briddles and
trunks.  Her portrait is to the right of the Doty's and Milton Joslin is to her right.
  Mrs. Joslin  (West wall to the right of window)   


  Milton Joslin  (to the right of Mrs. Joslin)
                                                       
  Lucy Brown - taught in a girls'seminary in the South and married a minister.

The couple live in Illinois.                                         
 
Charles Coolidge

Cabinet and chair maker.

  Mrs. Charles Coolidge (Nancy  Spaulding)

  George Wood  (south wall)  At age 24 painted in 1834.  Mr. Wood
was the Headmaster of an Academy near Mobile, Alabama.  He had many other
business interests, he was the original owner of our Village painting.

Young Lady (possibly Mrs. Jonas Miller )

Jonas Miller

Sally Gates Brackett  (either side of giving plaque)
                                       
  J. Knowlton Gates  (either side of giving plaque)

Painting to the right of the elevator


E. Thor Carlson
View of Mount Wachusett in the Springtime

Painting in the director's office

G.W. Beaman

Rafe's Chasm, Magnolia, Massachusetts.  Signed lower right.  dated 1899.   oil on canvas.  21 1/4" x 14 3/4".

Painting near east wall

Oscar J. Walkonen

Rollstone Boulder (Fitchburg)
Paintings in the Hurd Room

Oscar J. Walkonen
3 Overlook Rd. Signed lower right, no date. Oil on canvas, framed.  Accession No. L1990.2.135.

(This painting appears on p. 51 of the Homestead Heritage

of Westminster. The house was gutted by fire in the late 1970's.)

Nappila's Barn Westminster.  12" X 15 1/2" Accession No.
1990.2.6

& three other Walkonens

Paintings on 2nd floor in non-fiction Room

Eva D. Cowdery (pastel portraits)

Eva D. Cowdery was born in Richmond, Maine.  She spent most of her professional life in Boston
                  although she did travel to Paris to study with Cortois and R. Collin.  Her works were exhibited at
                  the Poland Springs Art Gallery and the Trans Mississippi Expo in Omaha, Nebraska.
                  She was a member of the Copley Society in Boston.

Jerome Whitman

Sarah Whitman

Joseph Forbush

Charles Forbush

Paintings on the 2nd floor foyer

Eastman Johnson

  General Nelson Appleton Miles

The Library also owns Hermann Stieffel's painting
  MILES CITY, MONTANA, but is currently in storage to protect it
  from excessive light

Painting in the Eloranta Room

  Portrait of Vaito Eloranta
                                                       
Sculptures in the Eloranta Room

  General Nelson Appleton Miles

Ulysses S. Grant

Sculptures by Olin Warner

Maud Morgan

     Rev. Levi Warner

Thomas Allen

     Mrs. Olin Warner

   Twilight