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In late August of 1881, Van Gogh left Etten for a trip to The Hague to visit Mr. Tersteeg<\/a>, Mauve<\/a> and De Bock.\u00a0 On the way home, he took the train to Dordrecht to draw a row of windmills.\u00a0 He most likely went over his drawing of the windmills in watercolor later while in Etten.\u00a0 The final work titled, Windmills near Dordrecht<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Windmills appear in some of Van Gogh\u2019s other works including Landscape with Windmill<\/em> an 1881 pencil and charcoal drawing.\u00a0 He drew Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill<\/em> in The Hague in August of 1883.\u00a0 Here he was struggling with technique and wrote to Theo saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of them are impressions of landscape, I dare not say as well done as those that sometimes occur in your letters, because still I am often checked by technical difficulties – yet there is something in them, I think – for instance, a silhouette of the city in the evening, when the sun is setting, and a towpath with windmills.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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When Van Gogh and his brother Theo lived in the Paris area, he created a series of works featuring the windmills in Montmartre.\u00a0 The area was still somewhat rural and contained farmland, gardens and three windmills.\u00a0 The windmills were tourist destinations for people from the city.\u00a0 Van Gogh\u2019s works include Windmills at Montmartre<\/em> a drawing from 1877, Windmill on Montmartre<\/em> and View of Montmartre with Windmills<\/em> both painted in oil on canvas in 1886 and Windmills at Montmartre<\/em> an 1886 drawing in pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Windmills Today<\/strong><\/p>\n

One final windmill still stands today in Dordrecht, Kyck over den Dyck, (View over the Dike).\u00a0 Built in 1612 to produce malt for beer brewers, the windmill now serves the bakers as a corn mill creating flour.<\/p>\n

Though the hill in Montmarte was once covered with 14 windmills, today only two remain.\u00a0 Together the two windmills are now known as Moulin de la Galette.<\/p>\n

More<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more about Van Gogh\u2019s windmills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Letter Source:
\nhttp:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/vangogh\/letter\/12\/309.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Montmartre Windmills and allotments, 1887
\nhttp:\/\/www.vangoghmuseum.nl\/vgm\/index.jsp?page=2101&lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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