Sunset, Saturday, 17 October 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 07:52PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Homestead Grays, Pittsburgh, Print/Cards Available, Sunset Paintings, Washington D.C., Zouaves, gray

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

.... visiting uniform gray, rain barrel gray, Union or Confederate Zouave red-and-gray, and I guess we also have today gray, yesterday gray, and day-before-yesterday gray. But tonight I commemorate some of the most colorful of all grays (hello, Pittsburgh ... and Washington) – the legendary Homestead Grays.

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