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A garden empty of humanity but full of trees and grass and green sky,all pulsing with life.

From the Curator
Van Gogh and the Nature of Solitude

Throbbing with the hum of life, this garden is as inviting as the artist’s iconic bedroom. Curator Kevin Salatino tells us why.

Inside an Exhibition
On the Wall of Van Gogh’s Bedroom

A painting in pastel tones and loose brushstrokes of two rowboats in a river, a man fishing from one, the other empty, tree branches in the foreground and a wide, arched bridge beyond.

Inside the Exhibition
Inspiration along the Seine: Van Gogh and the Paris Suburbs

In the changing landscapes just outside the city, an invigorated Vincent van Gogh experimented ferociously with color and light.

Van Gogh's nephew holding a self-portrait by the artist.

From the Archives
What Vincent Saw: A Photographer’s Journey

Sixty years after Van Gogh died, his nephew took photographer Peter Pollack on a tour of places where his uncle had lived and painted.

Meet the Staff
Gloria Groom, Chair and David and Mary Winton Green Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Painting in loose brushstrokes of a line of closely packed buildings along the horizon with many sloping roofs in bright orange. Before them an expanse of overgrown, yellow and green grass waves in the wind. Beyond, multiple slim smokestacks rise into a gray and pale-turquoise sky.

Inside the Exhibition
Finding Inspiration in the Tensions of Modernity

In the 1880s the new mix of industry and nature in the evolving Parisian suburbs prompted Van Gogh and his contemporaries to experiment with radical painting approaches.

From the Artist
Ask Vincent, Part Two

Insights from the Conservation Lab
Altered by Time: A Mystery from the Frame Collection

Frame conservators Chris Brooks and Kirk Vuillemot consider the origins of a frame that arrived at the museum almost 70 years ago (with a somewhat famous self-portrait).