Untitled [Yellow House with Yellow Roses]

Matilda Browne was an American Impressionist artist noted for her flower paintings and her farm and cattle scenes. In her paintings, she often depicted this house, the colonial-era house in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where she lived for four years in the aftermath of the First World War. Working with a vibrant palette of yellows and greens, Browne captures the age and charm of her gambrel-roofed house, its tree-shaded yard, and its old-fashioned beds of roses and hollyhocks in full bloom. The untitled view of the yellow house with yellow roses invites viewers into a fleeting summer moment, while its gentle nostalgia evokes a time already slipping into memory.

Matilda Browne made repeated visits to Old Lyme over more than a decade before purchasing what she described as an “old-fashioned homestead” in the heart of the village. By 1911, she had joined the artists working in the once-grand mansion on upper Lyme Street and shared studio space in a “rickety” old barn with Ellen Axson Wilson, the artist wife of Woodrow Wilson.

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