“Never were the postman and the painter closer ... Portrait of Marcelle Roulin, Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Van Gogh Museum The exhibition illuminates the lives of the Roulins through supplemental ...

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

But when Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) set his sights on mastering the art of portraiture upon moving to Arles in the south of France in February 1888, he turned to the local postman, Joseph ...

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 was a terrible cook, as Paul Gauguin recalled: “Vincent wanted to make a soup ... three years before the postman’s death. He was paid only 450 francs, or just over 50 francs (then ...

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 ...

a strange Dutchman, aspiring artist Vincent van Gogh. During his 15-month stay in the city of Arles, Vincent would paint more than 200 paintings that captured the people and places he encountered.

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in ... “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family, the family of the postman,” van Gogh wrote to his brother in late 1888.

The postman and the artist met soon ... Some of the letters were sent to Van Gogh’s family after Joseph visited Vincent in the hospital after his breakdown. (It is telling that while Gauguin ...