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

Art and film lovers alike are invited to experience “Loving Vincent,” the world’s first fully painted feature film, on Tuesday, June 3, at a special community screening hosted by the Full Bloom Film ...

MFA CURATOR KATIE HANSON, JOSEPH ROULIN THE POSTMAN, HIS WIFE AUGUSTINE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN. AND THEY WERE HUGELY IMPORTANT TO VINCENT VAN GOGH DURING HIS TIME IN ARLES. IN 1888 HE STAYED FOR ...

It’s one of the most beloved paintings in the MFA’s own collection. Vincent van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (center) and Frans Hals’ "Merry Drinker" (left) installed in the MFA's exhibit ...

After a year, Van Gogh eventually checks himself out of the asylum and returns to Auver under the guardianship of Dr. Paul Gachet. “In 70 days, Vincent paints 70 paintings. What a rage of work.

During his stay in Arles in 1888 and 1889, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) created a total of 26 portraits of the postman’s working class family. The current MFA Boston exhibition is featuring 23 works ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, high ...

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 ...