Bastille Day Occluded Fireworks – Sunset, Thursday, 14 July 2016

William Van Doren, BASTILLE DAY OCCLUDED FIREWORKS. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on canvas, 18 x 20.

I was at a baseball game of the Charlottesville Tom Sox for my birthday and the horizon was indeed ringed with clouds, but the occluded fireworks of course were in Nice.

The Storming of Bastille Day – Sunset, Tuesday, 14 July 2015

William Van Doren, THE STORMING OF BASTILLE DAY. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30.

Twilight of the Bastille – Sunset, Monday, 14 July 2014

William Van Doren, TWILIGHT OF THE BASTILLE. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on Arches, 17 x 23.

Over the Walls – Sunset, Sunday, Bastille Day, 14 July 2013

William Van Doren, OVER THE WALLS. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

La Gloire de Jour Est Arrivée (Sunset, Thursday, 14 July 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, LA GLOIRE DE JOUR EST ARRIVÉE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

For Bastille Day – and I hope I did it right – I’ve inverted a line from La Marseillaise. Instead of “the day of glory has arrived,” the glory of the day.

The View en Rose. Sunset, Wednesday, 14 July 2010

William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.