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Two Aponovich paintings once again on display in City Hall

By Staff | Feb 17, 2017

NASHUA – City Hall is once again displaying two paintings by New Hampshire’s fourth Artist Laureate James Aponovich that had been seemingly forgotten.

Mayor Jim Donchess said the two works were purchased by the city nearly 25 years ago, the last time he was in the corner office. Donchess said the city bought the paintings, one depicting a scene of Nashua’s historic mills and the other showing a Litchfield farm, with money from a trust fund. While the paintings were originally displayed in the main Rotunda of City Hall, they were eventually taken down and moved around over the years.

Donchess was mayor in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was re-elected last year after a 24-year break.

“When I came back in, the paintings were standing up against a wall in one of the offices,” Donchess said.

The two works were put back on display this week in the main rotunda for every visitor to the city hall to see.

Aponovich, a Nashua native, already has well-known work in the city. He created the mural across the street from from City Hall depicting the Yankee Flyer dinner. The mural in near the Citizen’s Bank branch on Main Street in the original location of the dinner. Aponovich is know for highly detailed still life paintings, and his work in on display in galleries and museums throughout the world.

Aponovich, who now lives in Peterborough, attended the University of New Hampshire and began his career as a portraitist and figure painter.

He became known for his still life compositions and became widely exhibited in the Currier Museum of Art, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Portland Museum of Art.

Damien Fisher can be reached at 594-1245 or dfisher@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DF.

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