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.

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...

News about Vincent Van Gogh, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

"Captivated by Vincent. The Intimate Friendship of Jo van Gogh-Bonger and Isaac Israëls" will be on view at the Van Gogh ...

Looking at the Van Goghs we see a few parallels with the Holy Family, who knew humiliation and repudiation.

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat for indelible portraits. Vincent van Gogh, “Madame Roulin and Her ...

Van Gogh’s Final Years Come to Life in ‘The Roulin Family Portraits’ This luminous, heartrending exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston traces Van Gogh’s latter days through ...

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 ...

Murphy: Every time I would ever bring friends or family to Arles, the first thing they would always know about Vincent van Gogh was he was the man who cut off his ear, and yet, when you look in ...

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 ...