In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph Roulin, ...

Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist ...

A rare figure of stability during Van Gogh's mentally turbulent two years in Arles, in the South of France, Roulin ensured that he received care in a psychiatric hospital, and visited him while he ...

Morell had come to Arles to take photographs in the places Vincent van Gogh painted 130 years ago. But, even as he stood amid the painter’s beloved Provençal landscape, he seemed undaunted.

The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother ...

In art and life, Van Gogh “needed depth, something that spoke to his heart, that relieved his loneliness and reassured him he was still part of the human community,” says Unger. Misunderstood in ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...

The exhibit also features other art connected with Van Gogh’s time in Arles, including Paul Gauguin’s renditions ... among others. The exhibit is on view through September 7 ...

From 1888 to 1889, Van Gogh stayed in Arles, France, and forged a “cherished friendship” there with a neighboring family, the Roulins — father and postman Joseph Roulin, his wife Augustine ...

Van Gogh Museum Van Gogh first mentioned his large, ambitious canvas depicting a view of Arles in this letter written June 20, 1888, to Bernard. It included a sketch of the canvas and another of a ...

At the toughest, most turbulent time of his life, the Post-Impressionist painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles. A new exhibition explores this close ...