Summer and Smoke (Sunset, Monday, 18 July 2011)

Monday, July 18, 2011 at 09:49PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Commentary, Sunset Paintings, Tennessee Williams, films, heat, seasons, skyscape, weather

William Theodore Van Doren, SUMMER AND SMOKE (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

It’s not smoke, it just feels steamy enough for a Tennessee Williams play. I remember the trailer for the film really got my attention, with my family at the drive-in, when I was 12 or 13. I could tell that was one movie they were not going to take us to see . . .

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