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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Thursday
Apr182013

Garage Collage – Sunset, Wednesday, 17 April 2013

William Van Doren, GARAGE COLLAGE. Sunset from Water Street Parking Garage, Charlottesville, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

From the roof of the Water Street Parking Garage in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Saturday
Dec222012

Solstice in Baltimore – Sunset, Friday, 21 December 2012

William Van Doren, SOLSTICE IN BALTIMORE. Sunset from Mount Royal, Baltimore, Md. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

This view was from the top of an eight-story parking garage in the Mount Royal area of Baltimore, with a snow flurry just beginning.

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Friday
Jan202012

Don’t Turn Back the Dawn – 2012 Campaign Poster

Just released today, January 20th, exactly one year before next inauguration day, this poster features my painting of the Washington, D.C., sunrise from Barack Obama’s inauguration. Available in a variety of sizes, framed or unframed. Also carried on RedBubble.

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