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 ...

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...

Vincent van Gogh, The Postman Joseph Roulin (1888). Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “It was super unusual for someone to make that kind of extended portraiture campaign of a ...

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.

Van Gogh’s drawing of Joseph Roulin, in Los Angeles (August 1888, upper left), and three of the paintings, in Winterthur (December 1888, upper right), Otterlo (early 1889, lower left) and New ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh created of the postman and his wife and children in the late 1880s.

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 artists the painter admired, photos, letters and more surprises. WBUR arts ...

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is the first exhibition to be devoted to the paintings of the “postman” and his family. Opening soon at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (30 March-7 ...

Vincent van Gogh. The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin), 1889, Oil on canvas. The Barnes Foundation. Tame as the Paris purchases might seem to jaded 21st-century eyes, they ...

Postman Joseph Roulin, Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a period of creative frenzy. The portraits and Roulin’s letters, on view in Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life. April ...