Welcome to The Very Rich Hours, where you can find postings of each day’s sunset. I’ve been painting every sunset since January 1, 2006.


This journal is named for the 15th-century illuminated manuscript The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry).


Most of these sunsets are seen from the same vantage point, facing the Blue Ridge, north of Charlottesville, Virginia. Even when I’m traveling and the sunset has to be done later from sketches, all of these works are painted “alla prima” — wet in wet, without later revision or overpainting, in about the same time it takes to watch the sun go down.


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William Van Doren

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Entries in Chuck Berry (3)

Tuesday
Apr022013

Goes to Show You Never Can Tell – Sunset, Tuesday, 2 April 2013

William Van Doren, GOES TO SHOW YOU NEVER CAN TELL. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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Wednesday
Oct192011

Drizzlin’ Showers (Sunset, Wednesday, 19 October 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, DRIZZLIN’ SHOWERS (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Title taken from Chuck Berry.

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Monday
Aug222011

It Goes to Show You Never Can Tell (Sunset/Twilight, Monday, 22 August 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, IT GOES TO SHOW YOU NEVER CAN TELL (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Chuck Berry said it, a surprising twilight sky proved it.

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