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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...
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New Exhibition Focuses on Van Gogh’s Roulin Family Portraits
When Vincent van Gogh moved in next door to Postman Joseph Roulin, he not only discovered a new friendship. In each member of ...
'A very deep bond of friendship': The surprising story of Van Gogh's guardian angel
At the toughest time of his life, the painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. It ...
How the First Vincent van Gogh Piece Was Acquired in the US: Book Excerpt
Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...
New Van Gogh exhibition coming to MFA Boston, a first in 25 years
More than 20 artworks by world-renowned Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh will be shown in the art exhibition, including 14 of ...
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You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam
so her information came from other members of the family. Van Gogh, she said, would come “for soup” at their home. Van Gogh was a terrible cook, as Paul Gauguin recalled: “Vincent wanted to make a ...
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kottke.org posts about MFA Boston
The MFA in Boston is putting on an exhibition this spring and summer called Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits. Vincent ...