A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it is devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s portraits of a single family. I came out of it with a full heart not so much warmed as ...

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, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St. Rémy ...

Joseph Roulin, a postman, was Van Gogh’s closest friend in Arles. Vincent painted not only him, but also his wife Augustine and their three children. Van Gogh and Roulin were drinking companions ...