Posts Tagged: Van Gogh Letters
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May 02, 2013
No CommentsVincent van Gogh in London
Vincent van Gogh moved to London in May of 1873 and lived there from time to time until 1876. From August 1873 to August 1874, Vincent lived in a room on the third floor of 87 Hackford Road in Brixton, a suburb of south London. At 20 years of age, Van Gogh had come to...
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Jan 22, 2013
1 CommentVan Gogh’s Birth Place: Zundert, Netherlands
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in a village in the southern part of the Netherlands in the province of North Brabant. The flat land of North Brabant was dotted with villages surrounded by cultivated land. It was here that Van Gogh’s love for the landscape began with Zundert’s fields, heath,...
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Aug 14, 2012
1 CommentThe Night Cafe
In The Night Café we see the late night crowd at the Café de la Gare, an all night tavern run by Joseph-Michel Ginox and wife, Marie, located near Van Gogh’s Yellow House. It is one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings and one of the best known from his time in...
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May 01, 2012
No CommentsHappy Birthday Theo van Gogh
On May 1, 1857 Vincent van Gogh’s younger brother Theo was born. Theo was Vincent’s closest confident, best friend and biggest supporter. Although they didn’t live together much during their adult years and didn’t get to see each other very often, they stayed in touch through the hundreds of letters that Vincent wrote....
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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...