Tag: Vincent van Gogh

Fine Art Tourist.Van Gogh in America.Detroit Institute of Art

by Maria+Stephen, posted in Art, Art Museum, Travel

In early December, Fine Art Tourist traveled to Detroit for the unique opportunity to see 74 pieces in an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Vincent Van Gogh. This show features Van Gogh works from museums and private collections around the world.

While Detroit in December is not ideal, Van Gogh is our favorite artist (we are not alone there obviously) and this exhibition is at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) for just two months. This exhibition will not appear anywhere else in the United States.

The DIA was the first museum in the United States to purchase a painting by Van Gogh (Self-Portrait (no. 7)) at an auction in New York City in 1922. This exhibition entitled Van Gogh in America, commemorates the hundred-year anniversary of that acquisition. Today, the DIA has six Van Gogh paintings in its permanent collection.

It is difficult to imagine today, but Van Gogh’s work was not popular in the United States until many years after his death in 1890. The first public display of his work in the United States did not take place until 1913 (New York City, Boston and Chicago).

By the late 1920’s Van Gogh’s work had grown popular in the United States. A number of his works were included in an exhibition at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1929. Subsequently, a number of museums in the United States acquired Van Gogh paintings. Curiously, in addition to the DIA, a number of mid-western museums were early purchasers of his paintings. These included the Art Institute of Chicago, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City).

In this post we are not going to delve into the life of Vincent Van Gogh. There are numerous excellent books available about his tumultuous life and spectacular art. We have included several of our favorites at the end of the post if you are interested in learning more about his personal life and his development as an artist.

We have included below 30 of our photographs taken at the Van Gogh in America exhibit. The paintings included are presented in chronological order. It is fascinating for us to see how dramatically his paintings change in regard to brushwork and color over his short ten year painting career. The majority of the paintings are from late in his career when, despite his illness, he was incredibly productive.

Detroit Institute of Arts: https://dia.org/

Sorrow, 1882, Pencil and ink on paper,
The New Art Gallery Walsall, United Kingdom
Bird’s Nest, 1885, Oil on canvas,
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Beer Tankards, 1885, Oil on canvas,
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Vase with Poppies, 1886, Oil on canvas,
Wadsworth Atheneum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Terrace in the Luxembourg Gardens, 1886, Oil on canvas,
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Pont du Carrousel and the Louvre, 1886, Oil on canvas,
Ny Carlsberg Glyptek, Copenhagen
Le Moulin de la Galette, 1886, Oil on canvas,
Staatliche zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
A Pair of Boots, 1887, Oil on canvas,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples, 1887, Oil on canvas,
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Restaurant de la Sirene of Asnieres, 1887, Oil on canvas,
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
The Stevedores in Arles, 1888, Oil on canvas,
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemiszo, Madrid
Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles, 1888, Oil on canvas,
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Van Gogh’s Chair, 1888, Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery, London
The Sower, 1888, Oil on canvas,
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Mountains at Saint-Remy, 1889, Oil on canvas,
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
The Olive Trees, 1889, Oil on canvas,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Bedroom, 1889, Oil on canvas,
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
View of Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Poppy Field, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Kunstmuseum Den Hoog, The Hague
Farms near Auvers, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Tate, London
Wheat Stacks, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Stairway at Auvers, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Undergrowth with Two Figures, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Sheaves of Wheat, 1890, Oil on canvas,
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Women Crossing the Fields, 1890, Oil on paper,
McCoy Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Portrait Gallery

  • Self-Portrait, 1889, Oil on canvas
  • La Berceuse, 1889, Oil on canvas
  • Portrait of Camille Roulin, 1888, Oil on canvas
  • L’Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux, 1890, Oil on canvas
  • Adeline Ravoux, 1890, Oil on fabric

We hope you enjoyed seeing these works by Van Gogh as much as we enjoyed sharing them with you. Be seeing you!

Van Gogh, an Appreciation of his Art – Gerhard Gruitrooy: Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters – Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans, Luijten and Nienke Bakker: Van Gogh, His Life and His Art – David Sweetman

FINE ART TOURIST: PITTSBURGH

by Maria+Stephen, posted in Art Museum, Cities

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Carnegie museum of art

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The Carnegie Museum of Art was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895. Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who arrived in America at age 13 with his family in 1848. Carnegie went to work shortly after his arrival as a bobbin boy in a mill, working six days a week, 12 hours a day for the equivalent of $35.00 a week in 2020 dollars.

By his 18th year, Carnegie was working at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company where he moved up quickly to become the Superintendent of the Western Division. Utilizing his connections made at the railroad Carnegie made investments in multiple industries, ultimately founding the Carnegie Steel Company. When he sold the company to JP Morgan, Carnegie became the wealthiest person in America for a period of time.

From that point forward, Carnegie devoted his life to philanthropy. He ultimately spent 90% of his fortune to start and fund a number of philanthropic and learning institutions including the Carnegie Museum of Art.

The CMOA is focused on contemporary art and has a significant collection of works by impressionist, post-impressionist, expressionist and realism painters. The museum also has galleries devoted to abstract artists such as Pollack and Rothko but frankly, abstract art is not art we enjoy.

We have included a sample of some of our favorite paintings from our visit to the CMOA during our recent stay in Pittsburgh. All of the photographs were taken at the museum by @FineArtTourist. We hope you enjoy the selection. Please let us know.

Be seeing you!

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Expressionism

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye…it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Girl Under Apple Tree (1904) Oil on Canvas. Edvard Munch
“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.”
The Lighthouse of Fehmarn (1912) Oil on canvas. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Realism

  • “Well, I have a very simple method of painting.” Sailing (1911) Oil on canvas.
    Edward Hopper
  • “Maybe I am not very human – what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
    Cape Cod Afternoon (1936) Oil on canvas. Edward Hopper
“When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.” The Wreck (1896) Oil on canvas. Winslow Homer
  • Allegheny_Ludlum Steel Mill, Pitsburgh (1948) Oil on canvas.
    Raymond Simboli
  • “A landscape painter is only at home when he is out of doors. It matters not whether he is an Impressionist or one of the older schools who dwelt with more rigors on form and outline.”
    Forests, Rocks and Tree (1872) Oil on canvas. Worthington Whittredge

Post-Impressionism

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.”
Wheat Fields after the Rain (1890) Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh
“What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.” Le Moulin de la Galette (1886-1887)
Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh

Impressionism

“I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.”
Fith Avenue in Winter (1892) Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam
“Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep. ”
The Sea at Le Havre (1868) Oil on canvas. Claude Monet
“The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.”
Place des Lices, St. Tropez (1893) Oil on canvas. Paul Signac
“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” Landscape with Three Figures (1901) Oil on canvas. Paul Gaugin

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
Water Lilies (1915-1926) Oil on canvas. Claude Monet

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
The Great Bridge (1896) Oil on canvas. Camille Pissarro