In late August of 1881, Van Gogh left Etten for a trip to The Hague to visit Mr. Tersteeg, Mauve and De Bock. On the way home, he took the train to Dordrecht to draw a row of windmills. He most likely went over his drawing of the windmills in watercolor later while in Etten. …
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…
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 Asnières.
