Artist Legacy Collection

Martha B. Swanson-Webber

August 1941 to August 2014

Martha Benson Swanson-Webber was a formally trained artist, professional graphic designer and longtime member of the Lakes Region Art Association. Born in New York City and educated at Miami University, she moved to New Hampshire in 1980 and found a lasting home among the lakes and mountains she loved.

Painting throughout her life, Martha explored landscape subjects in acrylic, pastel and other media. Her works earned numerous awards, including recognition for landscapes such as Meadowlands and Salmon Idaho. Her art appears to have grown from close observation of the natural world, an active outdoor life and the disciplined visual sense developed during her career in graphic design.

She also served her community by helping foreign-exchange students find placements in local schools. Through her paintings, her volunteer work and her long association with fellow Lakes Region artists, Martha left a quiet but enduring contribution to the cultural life of central New Hampshire.

A life in art continues through the artists, exhibitions, and
educational programs of the
Lakes Region Art Association.

Original 24 × 18 acrylic painting of a round red-brown barn with a cupola, surrounded by golden and orange fields, small farm buildings, green shrubs, distant hills, and a pale textured sky.
Original 18 × 14 acrylic painting of Pettit Lake in Idaho, showing golden meadow grasses, dark evergreen trees, pale blue water, and rugged Sawtooth Mountain peaks beneath a softly clouded sky.
Original 20 × 16 acrylic painting of a winding blue waterway near Salmon Lake, Idaho, bordered by bright green trees and pale banks with layered blue-violet mountain peaks in the distance.
Original 24 × 18 acrylic painting of snow-covered Mount Hood rising above evergreen trees, large rounded boulders, green meadow grasses, and blooming purple lupines beneath a clear blue sky.
Original 24 × 18 acrylic painting of rugged, sunlit mountain peaks rising above rolling green meadows and a dark evergreen forest beneath a pale blue sky with soft white clouds.
Original 20 × 16 acrylic painting of Lake Morey in Vermont, featuring calm blue water, softly reflected hills, a shoreline cluster of green and rust-colored trees, and a pale, cloud-filled sky.
Original 20 × 16 acrylic painting of a golden Sierra meadow with weathered fence posts, pale granite boulders, dark evergreen trees, and softly illuminated mountains in the distance.
Original acrylic painting of Richardson Lake in Maine, showing marsh grasses and winding blue water in the foreground, forested islands across the lake, and distant blue mountains beneath a pale sky.
Original 16 × 20 acrylic painting of brilliant yellow and orange autumn trees surrounded by dark evergreens and reflected in the calm waters of the Androscoggin River.
Original 24 × 18 acrylic painting of a golden autumn marsh with winding water, dark evergreen trees, a small weathered building, distant orange and green hills, and large white clouds.
Original acrylic painting of Burncoat Head Lighthouse in Nova Scotia, showing a small white lighthouse with a red lantern beyond golden grasses, purple wildflowers, green shrubs, and the blue waters of the Bay of Fundy.
Original acrylic painting of the Magalloway River with brilliant yellow and orange autumn trees, dark evergreens, distant mountains, blue water, and golden reflections.
Original 12 × 16 acrylic painting of Point Cabrillo Light Station, featuring a white lighthouse with an orange roof, coastal trees, golden grasses, a white picket fence, and a turquoise and violet sky.