CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Female artists who captured the sweeping vistas of New Hampshire’s White Mountains will get some long overdue recognition when their paintings are displayed in a museum now under construction at Plymouth State University.

The Museum of the White Mountains, scheduled to open in February with galleries, classrooms and state-of-the-art storage, is designed to create a central place for the study of the region’s art, culture and heritage. It recently acquired a collection of 19 paintings by female artists such as Maria a’Becket, Susan Ricker Knox and Lizzie Stevens that feature mountain views, pastoral valley scenes and detailed renderings of the mountain flora.