Red Right Returning – Sunset, Saturday, 22 December 2012

Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 10:20PM
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William Van Doren, RED RIGHT RETURNING. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Title, a nautical term drilled into the skulls of (for example) young kids learning to pilot a sailboat, here refers to the sunset coming back toward the north after the solstice.

Article originally appeared on The Very Rich Hours (http://www.theveryrichhours.com/).