Van Gogh's The Mulberry Tree Painting
Joseph Roulin
Starry Night Over the Rhone

The Mulberry Tree – Van Gogh’s Artistic Evolution

Van Gogh's The Mulberry Tree Painting

Van Gogh painted The Mulberry Tree in October of 1889, during his stay at the sanitorium Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-en-Provence.  He checked into the institution on May 8th, 1889 to recover from a series of mental breakdowns, including the infamous ear incident and a suicide attempt.  His time in the asylum was a refuge from the…

Joseph Roulin

Joseph Roulin

Models were not always easy for Van Gogh to come across.  His mercurial moods and his unusual art style often prevented him from finding people willing to pose for his work.  Yet in Arles, Van Gogh made close friends with people who were happy to sit for him – the Roulin family, a group of…