Seen alongside his Appalachian and Georgia paintings, this piece feels like a cousin rather than a postcard. The architecture is European, but the impulse is familiar: a road, a hillside, and the quiet moment just before the day turns. It’s part of a long thread in Bill’s work—landscapes that are really about recognition, the feeling that you’ve been here before even if you haven’t.

From the Archive: Valley Provence grows out of Bill’s European sketchbooks, where quick studies of rooftops, roads, and tree lines became a vocabulary he carried back into the studio for years afterward.

Studio Notes: Oil on panel, painted with broad, energetic strokes and a limited palette that pushes the greens and violets into a soft, atmospheric haze over the valley.

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