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Richard Gordon Packer (1916-1998) was from Lynn, Massachusetts. He graduated from Lynn Classical High School in
1934 and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1938. The teaching staff at that time included the noted
sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin, N.A. (1861-1944) and painter Ernest Lee Major (1864-1951)
For a period of time after graduation, Packer worked in the family laundry business and in his 30s began his career as
a full time artist and art teacher. He opened his first gallery and art school in Marblehead, Massachusetts. In 1952 he
traveled to the White Mountains of New Hampshire where he became reacquainted with a college classmate David
Baker who had a gallery in Jackson. Encouraged by Baker's success, Packer opened a studio in nearby North Conway
in 1953. He taught skiing and gave art lessons until at age 40 when he began painting exclusively. He remained in North
Conway for the rest of his life.
Packer traveled extensively, painting in Europe, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, and southwestern
United States. His most popular subjects are of New England including the White Mountains, Maine and Massachusetts
coastal and harbor scenes, New Hampshire village and maple sugaring scenes. Packer is a well listed and highly
collected artist. A great number of people find his loose style of impressionist painting, and carefully chosen New
England scenes, very pleasing to the eye.
This is a pleasing impressionistic oil depicting Louisburg Square in Beacon Hill, Boston Massachusetts.
Listed: AskArt, Davenports, ArtFact, FindArtInfo, ArtNet
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RICHARD GORDON PACKER
(1916 - 1998)
"LOUISBURG SQUARE
BEACON HILL"
Boston, MA Oil on Board
Artwork: 9" x 12"
Framed: 14" x 16"
$350
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