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.

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.

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

The Alpilles Mountains, a charming old town, and idyllic Provençal countryside all make this French town feel like stepping ...

When Vincent van Gogh set out to make the four portraits of the Roulin family that are the centerpiece of the present show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (as well as numerous other depictions of ...

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 ...

In May 1893 Robinson bought Two Crabs from Jo Bonger, Vincent’s sister-in-law ... two weeks after Van Gogh mutilated his ear, have sometimes seen a psychological element in Two Crabs: the ...

After completing his first painting of Joseph Roulin in summer 1888, Vincent van Gogh would go on to create a suite of 26 ...

Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris famed as an artist’s paradise, is also where Vincent ... period in van Gogh’s troubled existence — after he famously cut off his ear and spent time ...

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Van Gogh’s other painting directly inspired by Japanese art was based on Sudden Shower over Ohashi and Atake (1857), another Edo view.