Alice Dalton Brown's enormously popular paintingsportray a dazzling combination of light and domesticarchitecture. Her art perfectly renders moments tobe treasured: twilight on a porch; rustling curtains atopen windows; the foliage in a tropical garden; lightsparkling on water seen through a window. (Author April Kingsley refers to a 995 painting as "the begin-ning of Dalton Brown's long and continuing love affair with water outside the window.") These are timeless distillations of a near-perfect world, Victorian and Classical Revival environments to dream in,sanctuaries for the spirit and deep-seated memories.These scenes are unpopulated centers of reverie that invite the viewer to enter them, often through an empty porch.