Weeping Tree

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1889

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890

Status: On loan to National Gallery in London for Vincent van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Title: Weeping Tree
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1889
Medium: Reed pen and black-brown ink, with black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 49.3 × 61.3 cm (19 7/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
Reference Number: 1945.31
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J. B. de la Faille, L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh, 4 vols. (Paris and Brussels, 1928; reprinted in 1970), no. 1468, 3:142, 4, pl. CLXI (ill).
Carl Schniewind, “Chicago Reveals its Master Portfolio,” Art News (March 1946), p. 18ff (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 40:3 (March 1946), p. 27 (ill.).
Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 306-307, no. 153 (ill.).
Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), n.p.
Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, vol. 2 (New York, 1962), no. 629 (ill.).
J. B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (Amsterdam, 1970), p. 512, no. 1468 (ill.).
J.B. de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper, 2 vols. (San Francisco, 1992), no. 1468, 1:382 (ill.).
Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (Amsterdam, 1996), no. 1498 (ill.).
Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. 218 (ill.).
Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999), pp. 220-221, fig. 8.25.
The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, vol. 3 (Boston, 2000), letter 595, p. 184.
Belinda Thomson, Van Gogh (Chicago, 2001), pp. 70, 98, and 107, pl. 11.
Klaus Albrecht Schröder et al, “Van Gough Heartfelt Lines,” (Vienna 2008) pp. 56, and 449, ill. #9

Amsterdam, Musée Municipal, July-August 1905, cat. 412.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Vincent van Gogh,” 1935, cat. 114, cat. by Alfred Barr, Jr..
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Old & New,” 1946, p. 17-18, cat. 26, pl. XVII, cat. by Carl Schniewind.
Detroit, Mich., Detroit Institute of Arts, “Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums,” cat. 55.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 131, as “Tree in a Meadow.”
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 38 (ill.), as “Tree in a Meadow.”
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 14, 1972.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 156-157, cat. 75 (ill.).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Van Gogh in Arles,” October 18-December 30, 1983, cat. 149, cat. by Ronald Pickvance.
Otterlo, The Netherlands, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Möller, “Vincent van Gogh,” March 30-July 29, 1990, cat. 210, cat. by Johannes van der Wolk, Ronald Pickvance, and E. B. F. Pey.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South,” September 22, 2001-January 13, 2002, pp. 274-275 and 408, cat. 112, fig. 14.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Van Gogh Museum, “Van Gogh Drawings,” July 1-September 18, 2005.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Vincent Van Gogh: Drawings,” October 12-December 31, 2005, cat. by Colta Ives, et. al..
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Van Gogh’s Bedrooms”, February 14-May 10, 2016.
Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art”, March 10 - June 27, 2019, pp. 124-125 (ill)., cat. 38, cat. by David Bomford, et. al.
London, National Gallery, “Vincent Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers”, September 10, 2024 - January 19, 2025, pp. 52, 55 (ill.), 161, cat. 33, cat. by Cornelia Homberg, et. al.

By descent to the artist’s sister-in-law, Mme. Johanna Cohen van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam. Given by the van Gogh family to Dr. Jan Pieter Veth (died 1925), Amsterdam [according to a letter from Ay-Whang Hsia of Wildenstein, dated May 17, 2001 in curatorial file]; by descent to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Christine Veth, San Francisco, by 1935 [New York 1935 and Hsia letter]; consigned to Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1945 [according to Hsia letter]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.

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