Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

He was not an easy friend. But in Joseph Roulin, it seems, he made an excellent friend. The postman and the artist met soon after Van Gogh ... after painting the Roulin portraits, poor Vincent ...

“I have tried to draw realistically and not ideally ... the 1889 Salon des Indépendants. Théo van Gogh, an art dealer, wrote to his brother Vincent about the show: “There are some ...

"Hockney is so famous, so popular, such a great talker and character that it's easy ... van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh. Hockney places himself squarely in the latter camp: a portraitist for art ...

Unlike most people who have the condition and see it as an aspect of life for the better, Nabokov mentions that he didn’t really draw any ... s orchestra. Vincent Van Gogh, while a famous ...

At the heart of this show are 14 of the 26 portraits Van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin and his family, along with works by ...