The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.

Inside, I can live and breathe, and think and paint.” Before leaving Paris, Van Gogh painted an 1887 self portrait, on loan here from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford ...

Invigorating the spirit of life in art, the Museum of Fine Arts, or MFA, celebrated artist Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday and ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic’s ...

One of the most sad and damaging self-portraits ever is Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’. It was painted after he cut off a part of his own ear following a fight with ...

When the innkeeper looked in on the artist, alarmed by his groans, he found van Gogh doubled over in pain from a self-inflicted gunshot ... course meals and painting portraits of the doctor ...