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Compare the upright strokes of grass with the curved foliage and the thick, horizontal marks in the yellow sky.
Van Gogh painted the public garden across from his Yellow House in Arles while preparing for Paul Gauguin’s arrival in 1888. He intended this canvas for Gauguin’s bedroom, making a nearby park part of his hopes for a shared home for artists.
Oil on canvas · 73 × 92.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- The Poet's Garden
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 92.1 cm (28 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 116.9 cm (38 × 46 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.