The Rosy Benediction (Sunset, Friday, 17 September 2010)

William Van Doren, The Rosy Benediction (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Too bad it’s not Henry Miller’s birthday – that would be the day after Christmas, as he discussed at some length – I might have a better excuse for my title. But, you know, painting a sunset as or just after it’s happening and then naming it – I mean, really ... Anyway, I thought this title better than “The Sun, Rose, Fell.”