An Artist's Letters

From Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters

Sunday evening, I saw a re-run of a "60 Minutes" episode about Vincent Van Gogh, and his letters were mentioned. So, today, I did an Internet search to see what I could find out about Van Gogh's letters.

Indeed, the Van Gogh Museum (in Amsterdam, I think) does indeed have information about the letters online. Not just information, but also copies of the letters and the drawings he often sent with them. Online, you can visit the Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters site. You can see the original letters, translations into English, the drawings and more. You can sort them by when they were written, who they were written to, where they were written from....

According to the letters' introduction, "They were eagerly seized on as a rich source of information about Van Gogh’s gripping life story and exceptional work, and there was broad recognition of the intrinsic qualities of his writing: the personal tone, evocative style and lively language"

Fascinating! Take a look!