Archive: Van Gogh Landscapes
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May 25, 2012
No CommentsVan Gogh in May
The month of May was typically a productive month for Van Gogh with improvements in the weather and the flowers and trees in full bloom. In a letter to his brother Theo from May of 1888, Van Gogh wrote about the first painting shown below stating: “A meadow full of very yellow buttercups, a ditch...
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Apr 16, 2012
No CommentsVan Gogh in Asnières – Park Paintings
While Van Gogh painted several series during this time, one of the popular subjects that Van Gogh painted was a series of paintings of the park at...
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Mar 16, 2012
No CommentsVan Gogh Cottages
One of the memories that Van Gogh painted from when he was in Saint Remy was cottages with thatched roofs. He seemed to long for the familiarity of home and wanted to revisit some of his earlier...
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Nov 17, 2011
No CommentsVan Gogh’s Harvest
This time of year, we celebrate the harvest and reap the benefits of the year’s hard work. Van Gogh frequently wrote about harvest time in his letters, and he often compared the harvest season to his own work and how he would someday get back all that he put into...
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Feb 04, 2011
No CommentsVan Gogh Winter Paintings
For many, the winter months are bleak; gray days and harsh weather seeming to stretch on without an end in sight. Van Gogh often felt this way. In a letter to his brother Theo from 1879, Van Gogh wrote, “It is sometimes so bitterly cold in the winter that one says, `The cold is too...
