David Brown Milne 1882 - 1953

Rosemarie L. Tovell, Reflections in a Quiet Pool, The Prints of David Milne, Ottawa, 1980, p. 197 and pp. 180 and 196, no. 80, for Main Street reproduced, the first in colour

David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume II, 1929-1953, p. 913, 406.103 to 406.106 for the related watercolours, reproduced

The view from Milne's studio window in Uxbridge took in a section of Brock street that included the gas station and the offices of the local paper.  Milne painted the scene often and in all seasons and in all sorts of weather.  In some paintings, the grand, wide window of the studio above Gray's Bakery framed the picture or was a show place for flowers.  Douglas Duncan, Milne's agent / dealer, titled these works Main Street to disguise Milne's whereabouts, since he was scandolously living with a woman having not divorced his wife.