Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) 1889 Oil on canvas, 30 x 37-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Van Gogh‘s spirituality and intense identification with the forces of nature transformed his views of the landscape into…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Pont-Aven vu du Bois d’Amour (Pont-Aven Seen from the Bois d’Amour) 1892 Oil on canvas, 28-3/8 x 36-1/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis While the Pont-Aven artists often depicted the Breton people or countryside, images of the village…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Bords de l’Oise près de Pontoise (The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise) 1873 Oil on canvas, 38.1 cm × 55.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Pissarro’s landscape was painted at the dawn of the Impressionist era. Its…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La récolte des betteraves (The Beet Harvest) 1881 Gouache over graphite [?] on linen, 25.72 x 37.78 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro was an avowed anarchist who strongly opposed the existing social and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meule, soleil dans la brume (Grainstack, Sun in the Mist) 1891 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In the late 1880s, Claude Monet analyzed visual perception by representing the same subject under varying…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) 1430–1435 Oil on wood panel, 131 x 103 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The painting on wood by Paolo Uccello represents Saint George running the dragon through with his lance,…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les meules de foin (The Haystacks) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the 1880s, Paul Gauguin made several extended trips to Brittany in western France, attracted by the region’s remoteness and…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Peach Trees in Blossom 1889 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London F 514, JH 1681 Vincent van Gogh captured this view of an open plain outside Arles in early spring 1889. He…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ 1957 Oil on canvas, 152.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London © Estate of Francis Bacon Bacon based this painting on a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh which he knew only from…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vaches dans un pré (Cows in a meadow) c.1883 Oil on panel, 15.5 x 24 cm Private collection Vaches dans un pré was painted around 1883 and is one of Georges Seurat‘s so-called croquetons, pictures created on wooden…