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Marcelle, the daughter, was born around the time van Gogh met the family. As the artist wrote to his sister in July 1888, ...
A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.
It's rare that a month passes in the art world and van Gogh doesn't hit the headlines. So, what has Vincent been in the news for this year?
At the heart of this show are 14 of the 26 portraits Van Gogh made of Joseph Roulin and his family, along with works by ...
Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes ...
Actor Ted Zalewski captivated the audience at the library Saturday afternoon as he portrayed postman Joseph Roulin, a friend ...
A year after the death of artist Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk), Postman Joseph Roulin Chris O'Dowd) gets his slacker son, Armand (Douglas Booth), to hand deliver the artist's final letter ...
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh created of the postman and his wife and children in the late 1880s. A ...
At the beginning of 1888, Vincent van Gogh, about to turn 35 years old, moved from Paris, where proximity to the Impressionists had expanded his abilities as a painter, to the Provençal town of ...
Vincent van Gogh, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St. Rémy ...
Joseph Roulin may be dressed in his smart blue government uniform. But Van Gogh presents him as something more than a postman, more even than a loyal friend. In the same way, Augustine Roulin is ...