Vincent van Gogh

Artworks in this collection (31)

• Adeline Ravoux

  Vincent van Gogh · 1890 · Cleveland Museum of Art

  Painted in 1890, Adeline Ravoux is a portrait of the daughter of Arthur Ravoux, the owner of the inn where Van Gogh lived during the final months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Adeline was just 12 years old when Van Gogh painted her, and the portrait captures her seated with a quiet, thoughtful expression. Her simple dress and the soft background allow attention to remain on her face and

• Bedroom in Arles (Second Version)

  Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · National Gallery of Art

  Vincent van Gogh so highly esteemed his bedroom painting that he made three distinct versions: the first, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the second, belonging to the Art Institute of Chicago, painted a year later on the same scale and almost identical; a

• Corridor in the Asylum

  Vincent van Gogh · September 1889 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Farmhouse in Provence

  Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · National Gallery of Art

  A white path and gray stone wall wind through ochre and harvest-yellow fields beneath a brilliant, turquoise sky in this stylized, horizontal landscape painting. The scene is created with long, visible brushstrokes of vivid color. Closest to us, the field is painted with vertical

• Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago

• Flower Beds in Holland

  Vincent van Gogh · c. 1883 · National Gallery of Art

  Rectangular plots of flowers, each in a single color, stretch toward us below a sky nearly filled with cream-white clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. Together, the monochromatic plots create the impression of a patchwork quilt, with large areas of pale pink, butter yel

• Girl in White

  Vincent van Gogh · 1890 · National Gallery of Art

  Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a floppy, canary-yellow hat and a long white dress stands in a field of spring green in this vertical painting. Brushstrokes and loose dabs of paint are visible throughout. The woman’s body is angled to our left, and she looks

• Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago

  From the Art Institute of Chicago collection.

• Green Wheat Fields, Auvers

  Vincent van Gogh · 1890 · National Gallery of Art

  Verdant green fields roll in undulating waves back alongside a road in this horizontal landscape painting. The fields take up the left and center of the composition and are painted with thick, curling strokes of emerald, pea, and celery green, and corn yellow to suggest grasses a

• Irises

  Vincent van Gogh · 1890 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, the only still lifes of any ambition he had undertaken during his yearlong stay: two of irises, two of roses, in contrasting color schemes and

• L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

  Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• La Mousmé

  Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · National Gallery of Art

  Shown from about the knees up, a young woman sits in a chair angled to our right but she turns her face to look at us in this loosely painted, vertical portrait. Her chair has a rounded back and arms made from what looks like bent, woody vines, and the background is a solid field

• Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889 · Art Institute of Chicago

  From the Art Institute of Chicago collection.

• Oleanders

  Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  For Van Gogh, oleanders were joyous, life-affirming flowers that bloomed "inexhaustibly" and were always "putting out strong new shoots." In this painting of August 1888 the flowers fill a majolica jug that the artist used for other still lifes made in Arles. They are symbolicall

• Olive Trees

  Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  This is one of five pictures of olive orchards that Van Gogh made in November 1889. Painted directly from nature but animated by Seurat-like stippling and stylized passages of broken color, these works responded to recent compositions by Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard. "What I’ve

• Olive Trees

  Vincent Van Gogh · 1889 · National Gallery of Art

  Created between June and December of 1889, the painting looks out on an olive grove, with blue-gray mountains in the distance. Painted with van Gogh's trademark vitality, the sunlight seems to dash brightly across the sky as it gilds the beautifully twisted olive trees, while the

• Portrait of Vincent van Gogh

  Anonymous Artist · 1925/1928 · National Gallery of Art

  Shown from this chest up, a man holding a paint palette and brushes angles to our left toward an easel in this vertical painting. The portrait is loosely painted with short strokes and visible dashes in cool, green-edged yellow and blue. The man looks at or toward us from the cor

• Roses

  Vincent van Gogh · 1890 · National Gallery of Art

  A profusion of white roses bursting from the neck of a tan jug almost fills the height of this horizontal still life painting. The roses have large, round blooms with petals tinged with denim and aquamarine blue, sage green, mauve pink, teal, and butter yellow. Emerald-green leav

• Roulin's Baby

  Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · National Gallery of Art

  In shades of mint, laurel, and eucalyptus green, the head and shoulders of a chubby baby fill this vertical portrait painting. It is created with long, visible brushstrokes, some of which are thick enough to cast shadows onto the canvas beneath. The baby’s skin is painted with co

• Self-Portrait

  Vincent van Gogh · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago

  In 1886 Vincent van Gogh left his native Holland and settled in Paris, where his beloved brother Theo was a dealer in paintings. Van Gogh was apparently inspired by the energy of the city and by his introduction to Impressionism, and he created at least twenty-four self-portraits

• Self-Portrait

  Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · National Gallery of Art

  Shown from the chest up, a man with short, orange hair and green-tinted, pale skin looks at us, wearing a vivid blue painter's smock in this vertical portrait painting. His smock and the background are painted with long, mostly parallel strokes of cobalt, azure, and lapis blue. H

• Shoes

  Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves

  Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · National Gallery of Art

  Nine oranges and lemons sit in a shallow basket with dark green, spiky branches behind and a pair of cobalt-blue gloves in front in this horizontal still life painting. The scene is painted with long, loose brushstrokes, which are visible throughout. The muted orange and golden y

• Sunflowers

  Vincent van Gogh · 1887 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Van Gogh painted four still lifes of sunflowers in Paris in late summer 1887. There is an oil sketch for this picture (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) as well as another painting of two sunflowers also signed and dated 1887 (Kunstmuseum Bern), and a larger canvas showing four sunflow

• Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago

• The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889 · Cleveland Museum of Art

• The Olive Orchard

  Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · National Gallery of Art

  Three women stand on or next to a ladder picking olives in an orchard in this horizontal landscape painting. The women, trees, ground, and sky are all painted with long, parallel brushstrokes that curve and swirl over the canvas. The palette is dominated by sage and laurel green,

• The Poet's Garden

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1888 · Art Institute of Chicago

  From the Art Institute of Chicago collection.

• The Potato Eaters

  Vincent van Gogh (vermeld op object) · 1885-04-16 · Rijksmuseum

• The Starry Night

  Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · National Gallery of Art

  Inspired by the view from his window at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, where the artist spent twelve months in 1889–90 seeking reprieve from his mental illnesses, The Starry Night (made in mid-June) is both an exercise in observation and a cle

• Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy

  Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889 · Cleveland Museum of Art