# Vincent van Gogh

Dutch, 1853–1890; born in Zundert; died in Auvers-sur-Oise

Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and lay preacher before he turned to art in 1880, at twenty-seven. His early pictures of Dutch peasants are dark and heavy; in Paris from 1886 he met the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, and his palette brightened. In Arles in 1888–89 he painted with intense colour and thick, directional strokes, and he worked on at the asylum in Saint-Rémy and finally at Auvers-sur-Oise. The Poet’s Garden belongs to a group made to decorate Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

14 works in the collection.

- [The Poet's Garden](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-poet-s-garden-aic-14586), Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/madame-roulin-rocking-the-cradle-la-berceuse-aic-27949), Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Self-Portrait](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/self-portrait-aic-80607), Vincent van Gogh, 1887. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/fishing-in-spring-the-pont-de-clichy-asnieres-aic-109314), Vincent van Gogh, 1887. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-large-plane-trees-road-menders-at-saint-remy-cma-125249), Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/two-poplars-in-the-alpilles-near-saint-remy-cma-135310), Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Irises](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/irises-met-436528), Vincent van Gogh, 1890. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/self-portrait-with-a-straw-hat-obverse-the-potato-peeler-met-436532), Vincent van Gogh, 1887. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Wheat Field with Cypresses](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/wheat-field-with-cypresses-met-436535), Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Weeping Tree](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/weeping-tree-aic-52733), Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Avenue of Pollard Birches and Poplars](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/avenue-of-pollard-birches-and-poplars-aic-202382), Vincent van Gogh, March 1884. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Landscape with Wheelbarrow](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/landscape-with-wheelbarrow-cma-135286), Vincent van Gogh, 1883. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Corridor in the Asylum](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/corridor-in-the-asylum-met-336327), Vincent van Gogh, September 1889. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Road in Etten](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/road-in-etten-met-459193), Vincent van Gogh, 1881. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.