Sometime the year before Kindergarten--when she was still four or just-turned-five--Ellen learned about the artist Mark Rothko in her art class and then created these large paintings. We took her into the city to the National Gallery of Art to see some of Mark Rothko's work and she was beside herself delighted!
Ellen and some friends painted this picture of Old North Church in Boston where, in 1775, Paul Revere lit two lanterns to tell the patriots across the river in Charlestown that the British were coming across the river and not by land.