Vincent Van Gogh - Resources for Art Lovers

Van Gogh's Life

Van Gogh Museum - Young Vincent 1853 - 1880

Vincent Willem van Gogh, the second of six children, is born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, a village in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands.
Covers the period 1853-1880 - including time spent in The Hague and England

Van Gogh Museum - Starting artist 1880 - 1885

Van Gogh starts to learn about art and being an artist

Van Gogh Museum - Paris 1886 - 1888

On February 27, 1886, Van Gogh arrives in Paris. He lives with Theo in Montmartre, an artists' quarter. The move is formative in the development of his painting style. Theo, who manages the Montmartre branch of Goupil's (now called Boussod, Valadon & Cie), acquaints Van Gogh with the works of Claude Monet and other Impressionists. Previously he had known only Dutch painting and the French Realists; now he sees for himself how the Impressionists handle light and color, and treat their original themes from the town and country.

Van Gogh Museum - Arles 1888 - 1889

Van Gogh moves to Arles and sets up the Studio of the South in the yellow house

Van Gogh Museum - Saint-Remy 1889 - 1890

Van Gogh's stay in the asylum at St Remy - a period when he produced many masterpieces

Van Gogh Museum - Return North

Van Gogh moves north to Auvers and dies

Van Gogh Museum - Van Gogh's life in periods

Van Gogh's life in periods - separate sections deal with the different periods of Van Gogh's life

Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overview of the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A timeline of Van Gogh's life and career as an artist

Vincent Van Gogh - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Vincent Van Gogh , 1853-90, postimpressionist painter, b. the Netherlands. Van Gogh's works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life is thought to epitomize the mad genius legend.

Vincent Van Gogh - Encyclopedia of World Biography

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch painter whose formal distortions and humanistic concerns made him a principal forerunner of 20th-century expressionism.

Van Gogh: The Life Biography

The database resulting from the book Van Gogh: The Life

Notes | Van Gogh: The Life Biography

Notes associated with the Book Van Gogh: The Life

List of People in the Book and Notes | Van Gogh: The Life Biography

List of People in the Book and Notes | Van Gogh: The Life Biography

Van Gogh's Letters

Van Gogh Museum (microsite) Vincent van Gogh The Letters

Version: October 2009 Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker
View all 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, richly annotated and illustrated, with new transcriptions and translations

Van Gogh Blog

Letters from Van Gogh posted to a blog - one per day.

Van Gogh Museum - Van Goghs brieven

Van Gogh's letters
The artist speaks
9 October 2009 - 3 January 2010

From 9 October 2009 to 3 January 2010 Van Gogh's letters will take centre stage in the exhibition Van Gogh's letters: The artist speaks. More than 120 original letters will be on show alongside the works that Van Gogh was writing about. These important documents have seldom or never been shown to the public due to their extreme fragility and sensitivity to light.

The letters by period - Vincent van Gogh Letters

* 1. The Hague29-09-1872 - 09-05-1873
* 2. London13-06-1873 - 08-05-1875
* 3. Paris (and Etten)31-05-1875 - 04-04-1876
* 4. England: Ramsgate and Isleworth (and Etten)17-04-1876 - 31-12-1876
* 5. Dordrecht21-01-1877 - 30-04-1877
* 6. Amsterdam19-05-1877 - 13-05-1878
* 7. Belgium: (Etten and), Brussels, Borinage and Brussels22-07-1878 - 12-04-1881
* 8. Etten30-04-1881 - 23-12-1881
* 9. The Hague29-12-1881 - 10-09-1883
* 10. Drenthe11-09-1883 - 01-12-1883
* 11. Nuenen05-12-1883 - 20-11-1885
* 12. Antwerp26-11-1885 - 24-02-1886
* 13. Paris28-02-1886 - 31-12-1887
* 14. Arles21-02-1888 - 08-05-1889
* 15. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence09-05-1889 - 13-05-1890
* 16. Auvers-sur-Oise20-05-1890 - 23-07-1890

The letters by correspondent - Vincent van Gogh Letters

Including: Theo van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Gachet Sr

van Gogh's Letters - Unabridged (the original webexhibits site)

The Van Gogh letters are available online unabridged and annotated. It's possible to read extracts relating to specific themes
Art: equipment, influences, material, materials, supplies, support, technique, theory,
Attitude: clergy, death, family, Father, Mother, parents, people, reclusive, sisters, women,
Business: co-op, sales, selling,
Fear: paranoia, shyness, Feelings: ambition, apprehension, despair, guilt, homesick, loneliness, love, masochism, nostalgia, suicide,
Food-and-drink: alcohol, diet, malnutrition, preference, shortage,
Health: dental, eyes, fatigue, gastrointestinal, general, illness, impotence, mental, psychological, symptoms, venereal, Lifestyle: appearance, clothing, reclusive,
Psychology: agoraphobia, depression, hallucinations, insomnia, mental, neurological, nightmares,
Theo: health, mistress, work,
Memoirs: Sister-in-law, Nephew
Chronology: Calendar of all letters

The letters with sketches - Vincent van Gogh Letters

List of the letters with sketches and access to facsimiles

The letters by place - Vincent van Gogh Letters

Amsterdam, Antwerp, Arles, Auvers-sur-Oise. Breda, Belle-Île-en-Mer, Brussels, Cassis, Cuesmes, Dordrecht, Eindhoven, Etten, Guelma, Helvoirt, Holbaekgaard, Hoogeveen, Isleworth, Laken, Le Pouldu, Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, London, Marseille, Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nuenen, Paris, Pont-Aven, Ramsgate, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, * The Hague, Utrecht, Wasmes, Welwyn, Winschoten

Webexhibits: van Gogh letters: colours

Van Gogh on colours

Webexhibits: van Gogh letters: art - material

Van Gogh on art material

Webexhibits: van Gogh letters: models

Van Gogh on the use of models

Webexhibits: van Gogh letters: art - support

Van Gogh on the supports he uses for drawing and paintings

Webexhibits: van Gogh letters: art - technique

Van Gogh on art techniques

Van Gogh Letters - the reviews

The Observer - Vincent van Gogh: The Letters edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker

More than 800 letters written by Vincent van Gogh reveal the painter's relentless struggle to succeed as an artist, discovers John Banville

Letters Paint Portrait of Van Gogh - WSJ.com

A landmark six-volume edition of the letters of Vincent van Gogh dispels some of the myths associated with the Dutch artist's life and work.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: review - Telegraph

Richard Dorment on the art publishing event of the decade: the marvellous letters of Vincent van Gogh, which reveal his creative vitality as well as his loneliness

Vincent van Gogh - The Complete Letters: review - Telegraph

This sumptuous edition of Vincent van Gogh's complete letters shows that the artist was as adept with pen and ink as with paint and canvas, says Martin Gayford

Van Gogh's personal letters debut online in English | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times

File this under impossibly cool art websites. In what is perhaps the first project of its kind, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has put English-language translations of 902 of Vincent van Gogh's personal letters on line. Van Gogh was...

Museums and Art Galleries with work by Vincent Van Gogh

View Van Gogh's Drawings and Paintings all over the world

Van Gogh Museum - Information about the Museum

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is home to a great deal of information about Van Gogh. View the collections according to the period of his lif. Also a source of research and information about the processes used by Van Gogh

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - Van Gogh Walk

Like to know exactly where Van Gogh lived and worked in The Hague? Download here a special Van Gogh walk and follow in the footsteps of the famous artist! If you would rather do the walk with a guide, contact the museum's Education Department at tel. 070 ? 338 11 20.

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - The Hague School and young Van Gogh

With its great collection of Hague School paintings, the
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is the ideal place to present the
work of the young Van Gogh in the context of his Hague
contemporaries.

MFA Boston: Art of Europe: Missing van Gogh Discovered

The MFA and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, have discovered a painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853?1890) underneath the artist's painting Ravine, owned by the MFA.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - references to Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Musée d'Orsay: - references to Vincent van Gogh

National Gallery, London - VAN GOGH, Vincent

Works by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Over the course of van Gogh's decade-long career (1880?90), he produced nearly 900 paintings and more than 1,100 works on paper. Ironically, in 1890, he modestly assessed his artistic legacy as "of very secondary importance."

Neue Pinakothek [Sammlung - Künstler]

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
As a forerunner of expressionist tendencies, van Gogh's color-heightened paintings, commonly abounding with glittering brush strokes, show the use of line to be the determining element in contrast to Impressionism.

Vincent Van Gogh - Online Resources

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery: The most comprehensive Van Gogh resource on the Web

Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery - the drawings catalogue

Vincent van Gogh: The Paintings

The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery - an overview of the paintings. Van Gogh's works are divided into nine categories

Artchive: Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh images and biography

Making a Mark: A map of Van Gogh's London

The new Royal Academy of Arts website for the exhibition (The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters) exhibition which opens at the end of the week. It has a map of places in London linked to Van Gogh. This relates to a period before Van Gogh became an artist.

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery - Vincent van Gogh: World Map of Paintings

The world map enables the visitor to access a list of all the Van Gogh paintings available for viewing in museums and galleries in any given location.

Why preserve Van Gogh's palette? - Telegraph Blogs

Why preserve an artist's palette? The daubs of raw pigment or the mixes left in position can be an intriguing index to the working method and the mind of the artist.

Gallery of Images From the Book | Van Gogh: The Life Biography

Gallery of Images From the Book | Van Gogh: The Life Biography
* Colour
* black and white
* Early Years
* Dutch Years
* French Years

Van Gogh's Sunflowers

Making a Mark: Flowers in Art: Van Gogh #2 - Sunflowers and the value of repetition

I said I would do a study of sunflowers for Flowers in Art month and here they are - more about these later. When I was younger it took me an awful long time to realise just how many sunflower paintings Van Gogh painted. This post is about that and the value of repetition.

Sunflowers (series of paintings) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Van Gogh Sunflowers (series of paintings) From Wikipedia,

Van Gogh Museum - Zonnebloemen

Van Gogh painted the series to decorate the room where Paul Gauguin would stay when he arrived in Arles. He chose this subject because his friend had previously admired his paintings of sunflowers run to seed.

vangoghgallery.com - Vincent van Gogh: Sunflowers A Brief Understanding of the Sunflower Paintings.

Vincent van Gogh's collection of Sunflower paintings shown and described in detail.

vggallery.com - The Paintings: Sunflowers

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery - includes a complete listing of the series of sunflower paintings

Van Gogh Museum - Van Gogh en de zonnebloemen

A new publication about Van Gogh's sunflowers

Guardian - Van Gogh's Sunflowers have become monsters. But I'd rather have them than 'botanical art'

Germaine Greer: Despite the phenomenal marketability of flower paintings, no one does them any more. What proliferates instead is botanical art

The great tradition of flower painting in western art seems to have ended more than a century ago, in a series of tremendous bangs amid an obbligato of whimpers. Bang number one has to be the explosion of Van Gogh Sunflowers, 11 paintings in all, probably. The first four, studies of drying sunflower heads, were painted in Paris in 1887

Van Gogh and Gardens

Van Gogh in the Garden | Van Gogh Blog

Although Van Gogh was not famous for a garden of his own, he did make other's gardens famous. Capturing all of the colors and the beauty of each setting, Van Gogh painted many different gardens.

Van Gogh Museum - De tuin van Daubigny

Daubigny's property included a large garden which Van Gogh would eventually paint a number of times.

Daubigny's Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daubigny's Garden, painted three times by Vincent van Gogh, depicts the garden of the late Charles-François Daubigny, a painter whom Van Gogh admired throughout his life.

Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dr. Gatch's Garden in Auvers and Marguerite Gachet in the Garden were both painted in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in the gardens of his homeopathic physician, Dr. Paul Gachet.

Garden in Montmarte with lovers (Vincent van Gogh) : Van Gogh Museum : Art Project, powered by Google

This sun-drenched view of a park is one of the largest canvases van Gogh ever produced in Paris. It is also an example of the pointillist painting technique that pre-occupied him at this time - his version involved little stripes

Montmartre: mills and vegetable gardens (Vincent van Gogh) : Van Gogh Museum : Art Project, powered by Google

This is one of the works he made during his exploratory trips through Montmartre, which in the 1880s to some extent still retained the character of a village.

Montmartre: behind the Moulin de la Galette (Vincent van Gogh) : Van Gogh Museum : Art Project, powered by Google

Van Gogh painted this large landscape near his home on the hill of Montmartre. The north side of the hill was dotted with vegetable gardens.

Exhibitions of Van Gogh's drawing and paintings

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings

A large and significant part of Van Gogh's production that remains comparatively unknown is featured in this first major American retrospective of the artist's drawings. The exhibition includes a selection of more than 100 works ingeniously composed in pen and ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, and watercolor, along with a group of related paintings. These graphic images, lent by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and from 50 other public and private collections, brilliantly illustrate Vincent's own dictum: "Drawing is the root of everything."

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (2001-2)

The exhibition "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South" was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. This link is to the Chicago website.

Van Gogh Museum - Van Gogh's drawings: new insights

The fourth and final volume of the catalogues of drawings by Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum will be published in September. To mark the occasion, works on paper seldom shown due to their light sensitivity will be on display in the print room of the Rietveld building from 13 July until 7 October 2007.
Years of research have led to surprising new insights in Van Gogh's way of working. Based on a selection of his drawings, attention is paid to Van Gogh's stylistic development, use of materials, technique and experimentation and consequently the place that these works occupy in his oeuvre.

vggallery: Vincent van Gogh Exhibitions

A list of current and upcoming exhibitions about Vincent van Gogh

Philadelphia Museum of Art - Exhibitions : Past Exhibitions : 2001

This exhibition will focus, for the first time, on Van Gogh's evolving approach to the portrait throughout a tragically brief life.

National Gallery of Art - Van Gogh's Van Goghs

the largest survey of Van Gogh's art presented outside the Netherlands in more than 25 years.

National Gallery of Art - Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour: Take a virtual tour of Van Gogh's Van Goghs.
This exhibition was on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
October 4, 1998 - January 3, 1999.
See also, exhibition overview and related links.

National Gallery of Art - Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Exhibition Brochure

NGA: Teaching Program on the work of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh
Based on brichure linked to exhibition - Includes chronology and images

National Gallery of Art - Van Gogh Exhibition

Van Gogh's Van Goghs

National Gallery of Art - Van Gogh Exhibition

Van Gogh's Van Goghs

ALBERTINA (Vienna) - Van Gogh 5 September 2008 - 8 December 2008

VAN GOGH
5 September 2008 - 8 December 2008
The Albertina's autumn exhibition offers a new perspective on Vincent van Gogh by focusing on the artist as both painter and draughtsman. Fifty paintings and 100 major watercolours and drawings are on loan from over 60 lenders around the world. They underscore the artistic unity between van Gogh's expressive draughtsmanship and his radically new use of colour.

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2008 | Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Throughout his career, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) attempted the paradoxical task of representing night by light. His procedure followed the trend set by the Impressionists of "translating" visual light effects with various color combinations. At the same time, this concern was grafted onto Van Gogh's desire to interweave the visual and the metaphorical in order to produce fresh and deeply original works of art. These different artistic concerns found themselves powerfully bound together in Van Gogh's nocturnal and twilight paintings and drawings. This exhibition will present new insight into Van Gogh's depictions of night landscapes, interior scenes, and the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings.

The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts

23 January - 18 April 2010

In January 2010, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist's remarkable correspondence.

Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display, together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the correspondence.

The first major Van Gogh exhibition in London for over 40 years, this will be a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the complex mind of Vincent van Gogh.

Guardian - Royal Academy to showcase Van Gogh's private side

Van Gogh's intimate letters, displayed alongside his paintings at the Royal Academy next year, offer a fresh view of the artist's life and opinions

National Gallery of Australia - Masterpieces from Paris - HOME

Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond features 112 of some of the best-known works of modern art from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, one of the great museums of 19th-century art. Famous works include Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles 1889, Cézanne's beloved Mount Saint-Victoire c 1890, Gauguin's Tahitian women 1891, as well as many other great examples of Post-Impressionist art. A collaboration between the Musée d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Australia, this extraordinary exhibition is one of the most spectacular to come to Australia.

Critiques of Van Gogh exhibitions and Van Gogh's mark-making

Find otu what critics thought about exhibitions of Van Gogh's work

The Evolution of a Master Who Dreamed on Paper

The Evolution of a Master Who Dreamed on Paper By Michael Kimmelman (From the New York Times, October 14, 2005)

eric gelber on van gogh drawings at the metropolitan museum

Article about Van Gogh Drawings and the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue October 18, 2005

Eric Gelber comments very eloquently on Van Gogh's mark-making in this article about the drawings exhibition in 2005

CODART list - Museums with Dutch art & Flemish art

Commentary on the exhibition of drawings

Van Gogh in Saint Rèmy

Van Gogh in Saint Rèmy
Freaking Out(doors):
Van Gogh's Fear of Death As Associated with the Outdoors at Saint-Rèmy
Audrey Burgess, Princeton Class of 2008

lines and colors :: Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night is the title of a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition promises to be a small (23 paintings, 9 drawings and some letters) but insightful look into Van Gogh's interpretation of the night, of which he said: "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

Plus a commentary on finding Van Gogh in Provence

Edward_ Hussein Winkleman

This show is breathtaking. What's most impressive about what the chronology reveals is how van Gogh's marks themselves evolve over the course of his career. This may be obvious to many folks, and I had a sense of it myself before, but seeing it firsthand is something else altogether. So I'll share my impressions, knowing they're perhaps not at all novel.

Guardian - Royal Academy to showcase Van Gogh's private side

Van Gogh's intimate letters, displayed alongside his paintings at the Royal Academy next year, offer a fresh view of the artist's life and opinions

The Guardian - Van Gogh at the Royal Academy: Illuminating and shocking by Adrian Searle

Review: This new exhibition of letters, drawings and paintings strips away the myth to reveal what really made Van Gogh special - his art

Bloomberg - Van Gogh Emerges as Subtle Oddball in Exhibit of Art, Letters by Martin Gayford

First, the critical verdict: The Royal Academy's new exhibition, "The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters" (Jan. 23-April 18) is a must-see affair. Not only does it contain by far the most impressive array of work by this supreme artist to be seen in London in 40 years, the show even lives up to its ambitious title.

The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters at the Royal Academy, review - Telegraph

The RA's brilliant new show not only has some of the artist's finest works,
but also reveals their stories. Rating: * * * * *

The Real Van Gogh at the Royal Academy - Times Online

The Real Van Gogh at the Royal Academy - The artist's letters, on show at the Royal Academy, reveal as much about him and his development as his paintings. This show was always going to be a crowd-puller. It stars Vincent van Gogh, the painter with the art-historical X factor.

The Independent - The real Van Gogh: The artist and his letters

An exhibition of Van Gogh's letters with a selection of his works is a great success, says Tom Lubbock. But why can't we just let the paintings speak for themselves?

Van Gogh's Watercolours

Vincent van Gogh: The Watercolours (Standard Version)

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery: a detailed catalogue of the 148 watercolours produced by Van Gogh during the course of his artistic career. Documents the title of each work, where and when it was produced and where it can be currently found.

The watercolours of Vincent Van Gogh

During his lifetime Van Gogh created 148 watercolours. This is a slideshow of some of them created by a fan.

How Van Gogh made his mark

How Van Gogh Made His Mark | Explore & Learn | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Website for kids

How Van Gogh Made His Mark

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Aspects of Vincent Van Gogh's oeuvre, comparatively unknown to date, have recently been presented in exhibition and published form. Together with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presented 'Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings', featuring his subtly profoun

Van Gogh's Drawings

Making a Mark: Van Gogh: Drawing media and techniques

This post focuses on Van Gogh's drawing materials and how they influenced his style. Here are some of the things I've learned about Van Gogh's approach to drawing....

Making a Mark: Van Gogh: More About Drawing

Links to sources of information about Van Gogh's Drawing

Van Gogh Museum - Drawings

Van Gogh Drawings in the Van Gogh Museum - image and explanation

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890): The Drawings | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A timeline of Van Gogh's drawings

vggallery.com - Vincent van Gogh Drawings Exhibition: Amsterdam and New York

Van Gogh Drawings Exhibition: Amsterdam and New York - thumbnails and details of all the drawings in the exhibition

British Museum - Vincent van Gogh, La Crau from Montmajour, a brown ink drawing over black chalk

In February 1888 Van Gogh (1853-1890) moved to Arles in the South of France. When he had to economise on paint for several weeks he made numerous pen and ink drawings around the hill of Montmajour. Van Gogh described this drawing at length to his friend and fellow artist Émile Bernard: 'a

Vincent Van Gogh - Portraits

Vincent van Gogh: The Portraits (Standard Version)

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery - table listing portraits (and links to images).
Only identifies those with titles which start "Portrait of..."

Van Gogh - The Self Portraits

Van Gogh Museum - Self-Portrait as an Artist

Image and commentary on the collection self portraits in the Van Gogh Museum collection

Van Gogh's Self Portraits

Feeling Blue? Art Criticism in Van Gogh's Paris Self-Portraits
Jason Wu, Princeton Class of 2009

Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

The Vincent Van Gogh website : Self portraits

The Paintings: Van Gogh's Self-Portraits

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery by David Brooks
Catalogue with images of Van Gogh's self-portraits

NGA Classroom: Who Am I?: Self Portraits in Art and Writing: Student Activity: Van Gogh: A Closer Look

Student Activity: Van Gogh: A Closer Look

lines and colors :Van Gogh's self-portraits

Vincent van Gogh's active career spanned only a single decade, from his decision to pursue art at age 27 in 1880, to his untimely death in 1890. During that time he produced over 30 self portraits

Bridgeman Art - Van Gogh's self-portraits

Van Gogh - Self Portraits

Van Gogh's Travels

Places associated with Van Gogh

The Independent- Traveller's Guide To: Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh is best-known for the works he painted in the south of France, particularly in and around the village of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and for the colour and light usually associated with that region. But he spent only two years of his life there. There are many van Gogh connections for the traveller further north: in the Netherlands where he was born, in Belgium where he first started painting seriously, and even in London, where he lived for three years.

Vincent van GoghHuis Zundert

Vincent van Goghhuis, een levend kunstcentrum op geboortegrond van Vincent van Gogh

AUBERGE RAVOUX - THE HOUSE OF VAN GOGH AUVERS SUR OISE - OFFICIAL WEBSITE - RESTAURANT AUBERGE RAVOUX

Auberge Ravoux known as the House of Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. Last home of Vincent Van Gogh open for visits.private party and reception. The site is listed French Historical monument.

The asylum of SAINT-PAUL DE MAUSOLE, St Remy de Provence

Vincent Van Gogh arrived in St. Remy de Provence from Arles on May 8, 1889 to be "Interned" at will at the Asylum of Saint-Paul Mausolus.
He was fascinated by the quality of light and beauty in the landscapes he discovered around Saint-Remy and was safe in the care provided
He completed 143 oil paintings and 100 drawings in the space of 53 weeks.

The Van Gogh Museum Blogs

Van Gogh Blog

Get letters from Van Gogh in your inbox every day

Van Gogh Museum - Bedroom secrets

Bedroom secrets - The story of the restoration of a masterpiece painting

The bedroom has been removed from its frame, and awaits me in the restoration studio. I am eager to get started on this restoration! Not long after my appointment as head of conservation at the Van Gogh Museum in 1999, I was given the file on this painting. I read that the painting has been on the list of works awaiting restoration since the 1980s. Still, it's a good thing that we waited, since the research techniques available to us now have taught us far more than would have been possible twenty years ago............

Making A Mark - blog posts about Van Gogh

Making A Mark: posts labelled 'Van Gogh'

Posts on Making A Mark having a connection to Van Gogh. The majority of these discuss his drawings and paintings and development as an artist - or his influence on my own work.

Making a Mark: The economic impact of Van Gogh's Drawings

It's well known that Van Gogh paintings are worth millions - but did you know the drawings are as well?

Making a Mark: Flowers in Art - and Van Gogh #1

This post is about Van Gogh's early development in painting flowers.

Making a Mark: Van Gogh: More About Drawing

A perspective - and links - on Van Gogh's approach to drawing and mark-making

Making a Mark: Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Taschen)

Book Review: I bought a new book about Van Gogh a week ago and have been mesmerised ever since. Van Gogh - The Complete Paintings by Ingo F Walther and Rainer Metzger (published by Taschen) is a complete survey of all the paintings....

Making A Mark: Gardens in Art - drawings and paintings by Van Gogh

A review of the drawings and paintings Van Gogh made about gardens - both public and private. He seems to have made gardens one of his prime and enduring motifs for experimenting with mark-making and drawing in both monochrome and colour.

Making a Mark: Van Gogh: Drawing Landscapes

More about Van Gogh and Drawing - this post focuses on his landscape drawings.

Making a Mark: Van Gogh, colour and a colour study

Van Gogh's letters contain some 324 references to colours. The Van Gogh Musuem also has some interesting narrative about use of colour

Making a Mark: Van Gogh: Drawing Figures, Portraits and Self-Portraits

This post is about Van Gogh's approaches to drawing figures and creating portraits. It includes several links to where you can see images and read commenntary online.

Making a Mark: Hokusai, Van Gogh and the iris paintings

The irises are blooming at the Ecology Park Pond and I'm trying to get to grips with how to draw them. I've been studying an expert - Vincent Van Gogh - who, in turn took pinters from another expert - the Japanese artist Hokusai. This post comments on their various approaches to iris paintings.

Making a Mark: Video: Vincent van Gogh at the Musée d'Orsay

Following yesterday's post about the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, today I'm highlighting my video of the room containing 18 Van Gogh paintings in the Musée d'Orsay

Making a Mark: A map of Van Gogh's London

Did you know that Van Gogh lived in London for a while? I did - but I didn't realise it was quite so long or the places he stayed or visited.

Making a Mark: The Real Van Gogh at the Royal Academy

The Real Van Gogh - the Artist and his Letters will, without a doubt, be an absolute blockbuster of an exhibition. It opens to the public on Saturday at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Why? Well here are just a few reasons..........

Making a Mark: The Real Van Gogh - Portraits

Back in December 20087, as part of my Van Gogh project, I wrote a very long post about Van Gogh: Drawing Figures, Portraits and Self-Portraits. It was a particularly interesting experience therefore to be able to visit the The Real Van Gogh Exhibition - The Artist and his Letters exhibition at the Royal Academy and see two rooms which focused on his particular approach to portraiture. The exhibition contains:

* very many drawings of peasants, friends, their family and models in Arles
* portrait paintings spanning his career

The Art of the Landscape - blog posts about Van Gogh

The Art of the Landscape: Van Gogh's Palette 1882

What's interesting is that the letter lists the colours in dutch, the website translates this into English but the sketch lists the colours in French. Whcih rather suggests he was either buying supplies of French paint or the Dutch colourmen used the names established by the French.