Through Vincent鈥檚 Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources
The exhibition Through Vincent鈥檚 Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources presents paintings, drawings and prints by the artists most beloved by Vincent van Gogh, firmly connecting his art to its late 19th-century context. The exhibition will demonstrate Van Gogh鈥檚 early and abiding interest in a wide variety of art. To visually narrate the impact of Van Gogh鈥檚 sources, more than fifteen signature paintings and drawings by the artist himself will be juxtaposed with more than 100 works of art that fed his voracious imagination. The selection will include paintings by contemporary Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, and Alfred Sisley; earlier French artists such as Eug猫ne Delacroix and Honor茅 Daumier; and Anton Mauve, Van Gogh鈥檚 cousin who was part of the Hague School of Dutch realists. Nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige, who influenced Van Gogh鈥檚 art profoundly, are included as well.
The Columbus exhibition will include 61 works from the private collection of Steven Naifeh, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning co-writer and of the best-selling biography Van Gogh: The Life. Gregory Smith (1951鈥2014), Naifeh鈥檚 husband and co-author of the book, was raised in Columbus. Among works loaned from the Naifeh collection are paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jean-L茅on G茅r么me, Jozef Isra毛ls, and Paul S茅rusier. Other lenders to the exhibition include the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (Spain); Kr枚ller-M眉ller Museum, Otterlo (Netherlands); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; and numerous private collections.
The exhibition will also emphasize Vincent鈥檚 robust appetite for literature and the fictional worlds of the modern novel. The installation will include early editions of beloved novels by Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Honor茅 de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola, to remind viewers of the fictional worlds that impacted Van Gogh鈥檚 vision.
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The exhibition Through Vincent鈥檚 Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources presents paintings, drawings and prints by the artists most beloved by Vincent van Gogh, firmly connecting his art to its late 19th-century context. The exhibition will demonstrate Van Gogh鈥檚 early and abiding interest in a wide variety of art. To visually narrate the impact of Van Gogh鈥檚 sources, more than fifteen signature paintings and drawings by the artist himself will be juxtaposed with more than 100 works of art that fed his voracious imagination. The selection will include paintings by contemporary Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, and Alfred Sisley; earlier French artists such as Eug猫ne Delacroix and Honor茅 Daumier; and Anton Mauve, Van Gogh鈥檚 cousin who was part of the Hague School of Dutch realists. Nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige, who influenced Van Gogh鈥檚 art profoundly, are included as well.
The Columbus exhibition will include 61 works from the private collection of Steven Naifeh, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning co-writer and of the best-selling biography Van Gogh: The Life. Gregory Smith (1951鈥2014), Naifeh鈥檚 husband and co-author of the book, was raised in Columbus. Among works loaned from the Naifeh collection are paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jean-L茅on G茅r么me, Jozef Isra毛ls, and Paul S茅rusier. Other lenders to the exhibition include the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (Spain); Kr枚ller-M眉ller Museum, Otterlo (Netherlands); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; and numerous private collections.
The exhibition will also emphasize Vincent鈥檚 robust appetite for literature and the fictional worlds of the modern novel. The installation will include early editions of beloved novels by Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Honor茅 de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola, to remind viewers of the fictional worlds that impacted Van Gogh鈥檚 vision.
Artists on show
- Alfred Sisley
- Anton Mauve
- Camille Pissarro
- Charles Dickens
- Claude Monet
- Emile Zola
- Eugène Delacroix
- Gustave Flaubert
- Guy de Maupassant
- Honoré Daumier
- Honoré de Balzac
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Jozef Israëls
- Jules Bastien-Lepage
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Paul Gauguin
- Paul Sérusier
- Paul Signac
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Vincent van Gogh
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