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.

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 ...

Actor Ted Zalewski captivated the audience at the library Saturday afternoon as he portrayed postman Joseph Roulin, a friend ...

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 ...

The postman and the artist met soon ... Some of the letters were sent to Van Gogh’s family after Joseph visited Vincent in the hospital after his breakdown. (It is telling that while Gauguin ...

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 ...

When Vincent van Gogh set out to make the four portraits of the Roulin ... created of the postman and his wife and children in the late 1880s. A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his ...

During his stay in Arles in 1888 and 1889, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) created a total of 26 portraits of the postman’s working class family. The current MFA Boston exhibition is featuring 23 works ...

Ms Calment also claimed to have met the artist Vincent van Gogh, to whom she sold painting ... on Hiroshima he was 48 but he resumed work as a postman at the end of the war and went on to live ...