In Rome (1967) Mildred joined a high school faculty colleague aboard the Stella Maris for Crete, Rhodes, and Istanbul to view the vast architectural riches of St. Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Topkapi Palace, then return to Rome via Delos, Mykonos and 11 days in Rome, Florence, and Venice and a final four days in Paris.
In the summer of 1976 Mildred was being treated for the final stages of cancer at Barnes Hospital. Her children had hung several of her works in her hospital room: “Bottles,” “German Church,” and this painting: “Mykonos,” which may have been her last completed oil painting. She asked for a pencil and wrote her name in the lower corner beneath clusters of Payne’s gray and Sienna color blocks, with doors of transparent yellow, red, green or blue. She thought of adding another color but decided against it.
