Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art? Vincent van Gogh’s life as an artist had the most faltering and rudimentary of beginnings in 1880. By 1890 he was dead, by suicide, at the age of 37.

The artist gave prominence to the color during a happy period that produced some of his most famous works. But it can have many different associations, a new exhibition shows.

Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun, oil on canvas, 1889. Van Gogh painted several of his most famous works while at the asylum, including his Iris series and The Starry Night. In May of 1889, in the ...

Bailey is the author of the new book 'Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame.' Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame by Martin Bailey. Courtesy of the Quarto Group.

One hundred and thirty years ago, on July 27, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He died in his bed two days later, in the small French town of Auvers-sur-Oise. To this ...

We might sometimes forget that major artists have had to exist as people, too, with all the trials and tribulations that might come before they reach fame. Take, for example, family dynamics. And in ...

On A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist, by Miles J. Unger. “You once said to me that I would always be isolated,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1884. It ...

The creator of “The Starry Night,” “Sunflowers,” “Irises” and many more paintings will take center stage this fall in two very different art exhibits in Columbus. Vincent van Gogh, the brilliant but ...

Director Julian Schnabel and Oscar-contender Dafoe pull moviegoers into the experience of being one of the world's greatest painters. Vincent Van Gogh died at 37; Willem Dafoe is 61. Despite that age ...