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Painter’s final works kept hidden in downtown Portland for 77 years

August 18, 2017History, Newsart, congress street, fresco, maine, mason, mystery, paint, picture, portland, scottish rite, temple

By Troy R. Bennett

Domenico Mattozzi of the Maine Project for Fine Art Conservation gently cleans a painting by Harry Cochrane inside the Portland Masonic Temple on Congress Street last month. The painting is rarely seen by non-Masons. (Troy R. Bennett | BDN)

Mostly forgotten Harry Cochrane’s last major works have been hidden in plain sight for the better part of a century.