Six children in straw hats march along a white picket fence carrying small American flags, a golden retriever in a star-patterned bandana trotting behind them. Three clapboard cottages with navy star-cut shutters, brick chimneys and wreathed doors glow with warm window light, hung with red, white and blue pleated bunting and tall flags.

Fireworks burst above the rooftops against a deep blue evening sky, framed by leafy trees and hydrangeas in bloom. The scene is built from thick palette-knife strokes that give the bricks, shingles and sparks a mosaic-like texture, and the flat, storybook composition gives it a nostalgic, wholesome Independence Day mood.