1889, Vincent van Gogh, Trees in the Garden of the Asylum -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Writing to his brother Theo on October 5, Van Gogh evocatively described this view of the asylum garden as an "autumnal effect, some of the draftsmanship of which is more naive and more- at home." It is veritably drawn in paint, channeling the fluid ease and confidence that governed his reed pen drawings into a linear cadence that animates this familiar prospect. He makes use of homespun conventions, such as the ringlike modeling of the trunks of the weathered pines that frame the cypresses, as he circles back to his old stomping ground-the same site near the garden steps recorded in his benchmark brush drawing from the previous spring - with an inspired new line of attack.
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Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses”,
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1889, Vincent van Gogh, Trees in the Garden of the Asylum -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Writing to his brother Theo on October 5, Van Gogh evocatively described this view of the asylum garden as an "autumnal effect, some of the draftsmanship of which is more naive and more- at home." It is veritably drawn in paint, channeling the fluid ease and confidence that governed his reed pen drawings into a linear cadence that animates this familiar prospect. He makes use of homespun conventions, such as the ringlike modeling of the trunks of the weathered pines that frame the cypresses, as he circles back to his old stomping ground-the same site near the garden steps recorded in his benchmark brush drawing from the previous spring - with an inspired new line of attack.
Link to a high-resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from “Van Gogh’s Cypresses”,
Link to other van Gogh paintings.