In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in ... “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family, the family of the postman,” van Gogh wrote to his brother in late 1888.

The postman and the artist met soon after Van Gogh ... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After completing his first painting of Joseph Roulin in summer 1888, Vincent van Gogh would go on to create a suite of 26 portraits of the five Roulin family members by April 1889. The artist made ...

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 ...

Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...