"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big," van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, from France. Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Nightembodies an inner, subjective expression of van Goghs response to nature. In thick, sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79802
Starry Night over Saint Remy, June 1889
MoMA, NYC
oil on canvas
29 x 36-1/4"
Starry Night, 1888
grammar school children channeling Starry Night
Letter and Sketch of Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
28-1/2 x 36-1/4 cm
Wheat Sheaves with a Rising Moon
sketch: Cafe Terrace at Night, 1988
Cafe Terrace at Night, 1988
Country Lane near Arles, 1888
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