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Vincent van Gogh 2012 Compact Calendar
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THE LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
Born 30th March 1853
in Brabant in the Netherlands
Died 29th July 1890
in Auvers-sur-Oise, France
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 (18531890) | 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
Self-Portrait in front of the Easel, c.1888
NEW BOOK: Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
"The definitive biography for decades to come." - Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters
This new biography draws on paperwork in the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands. The database of notes that the project generated is now available online at http://vangoghbiography.com
In VAN GOGH: The Life, the authors make the following claims about Van Gogh's life
* the artist's famous "suicide" in the wheat field wasn't a suicide at all, but rather resulted from an accidental shooting involving two local boys and a malfunctioning pistol.
* Van Gogh's family tried to have him committed to a mental asylum long before his voluntary confinement in Provence late in life
* Van Gogh's relationship with his brother, Theo was marked by conflict as much as by fraternity.
* Theo van Gogh helped guide his art as well as financed his brother's artistic career
* Van Gogh fought frequently and furiously with his father. Some family members regarded Vincent as accountable for the parson's early death.
* both Van Gogh brothers acquired syphilis as a result of years of patronizing brothels. Theo died from its devastating long-term effects.
* The artist suffered from a form of epilepsy which attacks only the highest brain functions, such as memory, perception, consciousness, and identity - rather than limbs or muscles
* Van Gogh left a trail of failed love affairs as well as (his family believed), illegitimate children
* As a young man, his pursuit of a religious calling resulted in starvation and self-flagellation.
* All of his family(except for Theo) dismissed his art as 'ridiculous' and often destroyed or discarded the works he sent to them.
* Vincent was largely alienated from the circle of famous painters, such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Seurat, due to his coarseness
* Van Gogh pent long hours devising schemes to sell his art or make it more saleable as he very much wanted to be a commercially successful artist
* Van Gogh's brief relationship with Paul Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles was 'a match made in Hell'
* Vincent did not go to his grave with his genius unrecognised. In fact, fame and celebrity came his way a few months before his death.
Van Gogh: The Life
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BOOKS: Van Gogh Biographies
The Yellow House at Arles, c.1889

The Yellow House at Arles, c.1889
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This painting is of the Yellow House in Arles, Provence where Van Gogh lived. Gauguin came to stay here for six weeks
VAN GOGH'S LETTERS
Van Gogh was a compulsive and eloquent correspondent and wrote 902 letters - mainly to his brother Theo
BOOK: The Real Van Gogh - The Artist and his Letters
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the greatest figures in Western art. Revered for his bold, expressionist paintings, he is also admired as a prodigious and eloquent letter writer. His correspondence displays a remarkable literary gift and an ability to communicate his ideas and feelings about nature, art, and life in direct, emotive language.
Illustrated with works of art and letters that demonstrate Van Gogh's abiding preoccupations--the role of color in painting, the cycles of nature, and friendship, for example--this fascinating book explores the correspondence as a self-portrait of the artist and the man.
The letter-sketches that Van Gogh used to describe completed works or those in progress are reproduced here alongside the finished paintings or drawings, providing a unique insight into his artistic development. Drawing on new and extensive research, leading authorities on Van Gogh reveal how the letters enhance and shape our view of this modern master.
Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen, and Hans Luijten are on the staff of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. They are co-authors of Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard and have recently published a new edition of Van Gogh's complete correspondence.
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Van Gogh's Letters
There are two sites listed below which both give access to Van Gogh's letters online - each differentiates between the letters in different ways
- the first is a micrsite run by the Van Gogh museums
- the second is a the webexhibits site
- 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
BOOK: Van Gogh's letters
The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition
Six volumes slipcased with a CD-ROM of the letters in their original languages
Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker
Published November 2009 ISBN 9780500238653; 30.00 x 25.00 cm; 6 hardback volumes and CD-ROM in a slipcase; 2164pp
* Over 4,300 illustrations
* New transcriptions of every known letter to or from Van Gogh
* The complete collection: this edition includes all the letters, both in the Van Gogh Museum and those in other museums, archives and private collections
* New translations render Van Gogh's words more closely than ever before - unadorned, unimproved, faithful and accurate
* Van Gogh's sketches, made throughout the letters, are reproduced here at full size
* New material: previously unknown letters and fragments of letters are published in English here for the first time
* New scholarship: fifteen years of new research have added to scholars' understanding of Van Gogh's life and work. Extensive research has been carried out to identify every work of art mentioned, whether produced by Van Gogh or by other artists.
* Authoritative editing: many omissions and misreadings in previous editions have now been corrected. For the first time the letters are fully annotated.
* Supplementary texts add information about Van Gogh's life, his family, his correspondents, his characteristics as a letter-writer and the context in which the letters were written. Also includes a comprehensive list of materials discussed in the letters, a chronology of his life and a full index
* Exemplary design: the typography and design is by Wim Crouwel, one of Holland's most accomplished book designers of the last fifty years
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...
Almond Branches in Bloom, San Remy, c.1890

Almond Branches in Bloom, San Remy, c.1890
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VAN GOGH PAINTINGS
paintings by Vincent Van Gogh in museums, exhibitions and online
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 (18531890) | 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]
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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.
Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital
Vincent Van Gogh - Online Resources
Links to places which provide information about Van Gogh.
- 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
BOOKS: Van Gogh Paintings
Sunflowers c.1888

Sunflowers, c.1888
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BOOKS: Van Gogh and Flowers
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
Gardens of every variety in Holland and France feature repeatedly in Van Gogh's work - but are not the best known of his paintings. However his paintings of drawings of gardens are some of my favourite Van Gogh works
- 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.
NEW BOOK: Vincent's Gardens: Paintings and Drawings by van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh never had a garden of his own, but his drawings and paintings often feature a garden setting and natural motifs. Domestic gardens, village gardens, allotments, institutional grounds, flower gardens, city parks and country farms were all artistically inspiring spaces for Vincent, as well as psychologically soothing places to work.
Presented chronologically, the sites vary from his mother's kitchen garden in the Netherlands, through urban parks and green spaces in Paris, to the enclosed institutional gardens Vincent knew in Provence. Each location has its own character, landscape, colours and flora.
Vincent's Gardens: Paintings and Drawings by van Gogh
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VAN GOGH EXHIBITIONS
Links to exhibitions and reviews
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.
Irises, Saint-Remy, c.1889

Irises, Saint-Remy, c.1889
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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?
The Drawbridge at Arles with a Group of Washerwomen, c.1888

The Drawbridge at Arles with a Group of Washerwomen, c.1888
Vincent Van Gogh
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VAN GOGH WATERCOLOURS
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.
BOOKS: Van Gogh watercolours and drawings
View of Arles, c.1889
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VAN GOGH DRAWINGS
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
Van Gogh produced some wonderful drawings which, as a result of an exhibition, are now more widely appreciated. His skill and style in drawing with reed and pen in astounding.
In February 2007, as part of a project on my blog "Making A Mark", I recorded my investigations into 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 (18531890): 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
BOOKS: The Drawings of Vincent Van Gogh
VAN GOGH PORTRAITS
Vincent Van Gogh - Portraits
What fascinates me much, much more than does anything else in my metier is the portrait, the modern portrait.
Vincent Van Gogh
- 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..."
Self-Portrait, c.1889
BOOKS: Van Gogh Portraits
Van Gogh - The Self Portraits
Van Gogh's paintings of himself are splendid examples of self-portraiture. I've seen various different numbers given for the number of self portraits he painted and drew. There's a suggestion that he painted over 43 in total and that he produced some 30 self-portraits as drawings and paintings in five years between 1885 and the end of his stay in Brabant period (1885) to the last year of his life at St Rémy and Auvers.
- 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
Starry Night, c.1889
Van Gogh's Travels
Places associated with Van Gogh
* born, at 27 Markt, in Zundert, in the far south of the Netherlands (replaced by a new museum, known as the Vincent van Gogh Huis (00 31 76 597 8590; vangoghhuis.com)
* lived in London at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton
* lived in a small miner's cottage in Cuesmes (Maison van Gogh at 3 Rue du Pavillon (00 32 65 35 56 11)
* lived with Theo at 54 rue Lepic, not far from the Moulin Rouge on the edge of Montmartre
* the "Yellow House" on Place Lamartine in Arles no longer exists
* the Café la Nuit, in the Place du Forum (00 33 44 90 96 44 58), still has the familiar yellow front
* He lived in a hospice south of St Remy de Provence in the 10th-century Monastère St Paul-de-Mausole on the Avenue van Gogh (00 33 4 90 92 77 00; cloitresaintpaul-valetudo.com)
* The house where van Gogh lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, at 52 rue du Général de Gaulle (00 33 1 30 36 60 60; maisondevangogh.fr), is now a restaurant, L'Auberge Ravoux.
- 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
There are two Van Gogh Museums blogs
- A blog which recounts Van Gogh's life through his letters
- A Van Gogh Museum Blog about restoration
- 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.
Vase of Irises, c.1890
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seosmm
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- Such an amazing artist. Beautiful lens!
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arrogantwriter
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Wedding_Mom
May 10, 2011 @ 3:42 am | delete
- van Gogh's Sunflowers are probably one of his best works, knowing that there are about dozens of his masterpieces, It may not be the most his most expensive painting but still it showcases the artist finest work! Wonderful Lens!
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OrganicMom247 Apr 27, 2011 @ 6:50 pm | delete
- Vincent Van Gogh paintings are very beautiful. Are those paintings being sold at Art.com real?
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makingamark
Apr 27, 2011 @ 7:23 pm | delete
- No - they're prints. A real Van Gogh would cost millions today
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Sep 15, 2010 @ 3:17 am | delete
- well, im a van gogh fan. it's refreshing to look at his paintings.
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pastella
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- I love the vibrancy of his paintings. It's a shame he wasn't happier in life. This is an interesting lens with some great links and information.
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Irenemaria
Mar 31, 2010 @ 2:38 pm | delete
- A well deserved purple star! His paintings are outstanding. Reminds me a little of Edward Munchs
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Evelyn_Saenz Mar 31, 2010 @ 12:30 pm | delete
- Congratulations on your Purple Star.
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GramaBarb
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- Congratulations on your purple star. Great lens.
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Treasures-By-Brenda
Mar 31, 2010 @ 6:58 am | delete
- Great resource on Vincent Van Gogh. We enjoyed the museum when we were in Amsterdam. Congratulations on your Purple Star.
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blujeanmomma
Mar 31, 2010 @ 5:34 am | delete
- Congratulations on your purple star! Starry Night has always been one of my favorite paintings and Van Googh one of my favorite artists.
You have put together a great resource.
Great lens :)
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EditionH
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- Another great art resource Katherine ! Congratulations to the purple star.
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skiesgreen
Mar 30, 2010 @ 8:54 pm | delete
- Just saw some of his works in the Masters From Paris exhibition at the National Library in Canberra. Along with other famous artists the lines to get in were so great the gallery decided to open 24/7 so people would not be disappointed. Top marks for this and lens rolled to and featured on Art Supplies
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eclecticeducation
Mar 10, 2010 @ 10:21 am | delete
- Great lens! I love Van Gogh. My favorite is Starry Night, second is Sunflowers. Van Gogh is the first artist my little 7 year old can recognize! lol!!! Blessed by an Angel and lensrolling to my Van Gogh children's lens.
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EditionH
May 11, 2009 @ 3:42 am | delete
- Thanks for this great resource on van Gogh. I appreciate especially the links to the many great drawings by van Gogh.
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makingamark
Feb 9, 2009 @ 8:19 pm | delete
- Robert - one of the problems with evaluating the sunflower series is that the yellow he used has almost certainly changed and darkened with age. So what the paintings look like now is probably not the same as they looked when they were painted
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Robert Mileham
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- Hi Making a Mark, did I spell that right? Sorry I missed your reply. Not interested in hits! Not that kind anyway!
No, I seriously find adoration of an individual artist annoying, quite ok to have a favourite but V-G is hugely disappointing especially his sunflowers and so much time and effort by the great and good goes into saying how wonderful he was: needs some moderation, so that is why I feel the need to express my opinion. So sorry, I mean no offence. I can't spell and V-G was lucky to get the English version from my dyslexic brain!
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Hiberniensis
Oct 21, 2008 @ 5:59 pm | delete
- A convincing argument for genius -- what would that look like? It seems to me that genius can only be recognised, not 'proved'. As for the genius of Van Gogh, his paintings themselves are convincing enough.
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rms
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- You've accumulated a goldmine of information on Van Gogh. My personal favorite of his is Starry Night. Nice work!
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