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Over the next six years, Snowy served as the Mellon family\u2019s live-in artist at their residences<\/a> in Upperville, Virginia, Washington, DC, and New York City, as well as on Cape Cod and Antigua. In her watercolors, Campbell captured the colors, light, and ambiance of the very rarefied rooms therein.<\/p>\n Dream job that it was, Snowy nonetheless eventually gave her notice to Bunny when marriage and motherhood claimed her. Over the last half-century, the artist\u2019s luminous paintings remained in the archives of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, on the Mellon estate in Virginia. This month, with the release of The Enchanting Interiors of Bunny Mellon: Paintings by Snowy Campbell<\/em><\/a> (Rizzoli), they are published for the first time.<\/p>\n Being the Mellons\u2019 New York City redoubt, their home at 125 East 70th<\/sup> Street was arguably more opulent than the couple\u2019s other residences. Yet there was nothing showy about the eight-bedroom, 11,000-square-foot mansion, because it followed the template Mrs. Mellon had created. As Mr. Mellon once explained: \u201cOne of the most engaging features of all our houses is their friendliness. Major works of art live side-by-side with small objects of art, children\u2019s drawings, and bronzes of favorite horses. Bunny\u2019s quest for comfort and informality has been nurtured with care; a little natural shabbiness in an old chair cover is sometimes purposely overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n Truman Capote, Lee Radziwell and Rachel \u201cBunny\u201d Lambert Lloyd arrive at an event at the Asia House hosted by Jacqueline Kennedy for John K. Galbraith in New York, 1965<\/p>\n <\/span>WWD\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Bunny\u2019s aversion to anything looking too new was duly noted by Truman Capote<\/a>. In a 1978 interview with Time<\/em> magazine<\/a>, he reported that Mrs. Mellon always carried a small pair of scissors in her purse: \u201cWhen things are looking a little too neat, she takes a little snip out of a chair or something so it will have that lived-in look.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n