In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...

Van Gogh, who had endured many weeks of isolation, knew then that he had his model. Roulin had “a head something like that of Socrates,” Vincent wrote to his brother Theo, “almost no nose, a ...

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...

Detail, Vincent van Gogh, “Wheat Field With Cypresses.” “It can be startling to realize that a smaller tree is leaning against a taller one, like human figures with their sides touching ...

It’s a law of nature: every year brings a gust of theories about Vincent van Gogh. His life has been scrutinized for so long that we seem to have all the information, and nowhere near enough ...

Explore Van Gogh’s vivid final works and letters in the MFA Boston’s moving “Roulin Family Portraits,” on view through September 7, 2025.

Installation view of “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” on view at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, with Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh’s portraits of Augustine Roulin painted in ...

Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun, oil on canvas, 1889.Van Gogh painted several of his most famous works while at the asylum, including his Iris series and The Starry Night.. In May of 1889, in ...

At the beginning of 1888, Vincent van Gogh, about to turn 35 years old, moved from Paris, where proximity to the Impressionists had expanded his abilities as a painter, to the Provençal town of ...

BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...