Marguerite Bride refers to her series of Berkshire and New England watercolor paintings as “Local Color”. She especially loves painting buildings. Though she may not know their stories, she can imagine them while she paints and that infuses her vision of the scene, her sense of its “local color”.

“Bucksteep Manor – Early Evening In Winter”, watercolor, 12″x18″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Canoe Meadows In Autumn”, watercolor, 10″x20″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Chapin Hall, Williams College, Williamstown”, watercolor, 12″x29″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Christmas On Park Square, 1912″, watercolor, 23″x60″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“North County Farmstead”, watercolor, 14″x27″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Paris Or Pittsfield?”, watercolor, 12″x12″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Portsmouth Seacoast, NH”, watercolor, 11″x29″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Pottery Alley”, watercolor, 15″x20″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“St. Joes, North Street, Pittsfield”, watercolor, 14″x30″. (c)Marguerite Bride.

“Victorian House Portrait”, watercolor, 22″x29″. (c)Marguerite Bride.