The pair lived there just long enough to have two children, before moving north to the Mount Pleasant area in the village of Rosebush.
Grace did not begin painting until the age of 50, after she developed an allergy related to the ceramics she had enjoyed working with all her life.
She painted bright, top-to-bottom images full of people, animals, buildings, and nature, with little negative space in between.
One can spot a red brick schoolhouse, children playing ring around the rosie, a boy chasing his runaway dog, and a small American flag in nearly all of McArthur's paintings.
[3] Her sense of humor is often seen in her work, as she painted dogs running away from their owners or truck drivers operating their steering wheels from the wrong side of their vehicles.
Filmed at Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester, Michigan, the episode included a $2,000 valuation for six original oil paintings by McArthur.