Adam Van Doren is an artist, author, and filmmaker. He teaches a painting course at Yale College entitled “Mastering the Art of Watercolor: Classic Techniques from Turner to Hopper”. He has also taught at the institute of Classical Architecture in New York City.
He has published five books, including “The Stones of Yale” and “In the Founder’s Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution”.
His artwork is included in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among other collections. He has directed two documentary films on James Thurber (PBS) and Harold Ross and the history of the New Yorker Magazine.
He enjoys playing the banjo and was a former DJ of the bluegrass program “Moonshine” for his college radio station. He relishes Fellows dinners, lunches at the Dport Dining Hall, afternoon tea at the Elizabethan Club on campus, and occasional pick up foodball on the Davenport quad. He also enjoys lively intellectural conversations with students in the office in Davenport I share with Prof. Gitlin; and have enjoyed presenting several College Teas in Dport on American humorists, as well as giving some weekend workshops on watercolor to Yale students during COVID.
He looks forward to exhibiting his students’ work every semester in Davenport art gallery.
Adam Van Doren received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Columbia University in 1984 and his Master of Architecture from Columbia School of Architecture in 1990.