A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own ...

After an argument with Gauguin, and evidently heaving with psychic turmoil, Van Gogh cut off a small part of his ear, wrapped it up and hand-delivered the macabre package to a prostitute in a ...

It was in the late evening of 23 December that Van Gogh mutilated his ear. When Theo visited Vincent in the Arles hospital on Christmas Day he told Jo afterwards that he had mentioned her and ...

It was recently determined that the artist painted his final work, “Tree Roots,” in Auvers-sur-Oise. The roots still exist, ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...

Van Gogh’s “yearning for a communion of souls was so intense, and so one-sided, that it inevitably pushed away the object of his affection”—most notably Paul Gauguin, who fled Arles after the ...

How did Vincent van Gogh really die? We’ve all heard of the tortured artist who took his own life before he had a chance to ...

Some people think that van Gogh’s painting ‘Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear’ was just a prop. But in reality, van Gogh did cut off his ear after an argument with a fellow artist. It is said ...

JoEllen Kwiatek's work has been published in "The Antioch Review" and "The American Poetry Review." She has also received a ...

Still, the painting is bright and lively, made at the end of a productive period in Van Gogh’s troubled existence — after he famously cut off his ear and spent time in an asylum — and the ...