Van Gogh (Abrams Art Ebook) PDF
Van Gogh (Abrams Art Ebook) PDF
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ROBERT GOLDWATER
Associate Professor of Art, Queens College, New York
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In July, 1880, just ten years before his life ended,
Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo of his
decision to become a painter. He was twenty-seven,
had unsuccessfully tried to be picture dealer, school-
master, bookseller, and evangelist, and had suffered
much anguished doubt that he was good for anything
at all. To his puritan family, who believed in the
close connection of work and morality, he seemed
an idler and a non-conforming eccentric. Actually he
was a man with a calling, but still uncertain of what
that calling was.
Vincent van Gogh the painter did not break with
his own past. The dramatic single events of Van
Gogh's career, in which he seems at the mercy of
outside forces or uncontrollable factors withm him-
must never obscure for us the strength of the
self,
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PERE TANGUY
Collection Mr. and Mrs. Edzvard G. Robinson
Beverly Hills, Calijor?iia
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THE DRAWBRIDGE
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B. de la Faille. LOeuvre de Vincent van Gogh. Paris
and Brussels, Van Oest, 1928
(Complete catalogue of the graphic work)
J.
B. de la Faille. Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Hyperion,
1939. (Complete catalogue of paintings)
ACKNOW LEDGMENT S
in a book of art, it seems particularly fitting to ac-
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its variety. Many of his most famous paintings are included, as
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full color with six double-page color plates. Van Gogh's vehe-
) ment and crackling drawings are generously represented in more
( than thirty pages of duo-tone illustrations. Mr. Goldwater's
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introduction and critical commentaries on the paintings are an
infoimative and stimulating guide to Van Gogh's achievement.
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