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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh Wheat Field ink drawing
Wheat Field, Vincent van Gogh; Reed pen and logwood ink over pencil; roughly 9 x 12 inches ( 24 x 31 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. I love these pen and brown ink drawings Van Gogh did late in…
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Not the usual Van Goghs #5
As I’ve pointed out in four previous posts — browsing through books, selections of prints or posters, and even some museum exhibitions, can give you the impression that Van Gogh’s oeuvre was somewhat limited, when nothing could be further from the facts. What you find is repetitions of his “greatest hits”. This is an unfortunate…
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Not the Usual Van Goghs #4
In making decisions about what images they will show, art directors, publishers, reproduction print makers, and even museums, will often limit themselves to the most popular images in an artist’s oeuvre, particularly when dealing with very popular artists. This leads to a condition I think of as the “Greatest Hits” syndrome; publishers don’t want to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches
Gate at the Paris Ramparts, Entrance to the Moulin de la Galette, Vincent van Gogh Pencil, pen & ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, roughly 9 x 12″ (24 x 32 cm) and 12 x 9″ (31 x 24 cm), respectively. As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts on “Not the usual Van Goghs“, in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh cottage drawing
Two Cottages at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Vincent van Gogh Reed pen and brown ink over pencil, roughly 12 x 18 inches (315 x 473 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and…
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Van Gogh’s drawings
As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts showcasing some “Not the usual Van Gogh’s” (and here), we are often given the impression that an artist’s oeuvre is much smaller that is really is because art publishers and even museums tend to emphasize an artist’s “greatest hits” over and over, at the expense of exploring a…