Van Gogh's Flowers

Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most renowned and influential artists. The story of his troubled life has long fascinated art lovers, shaping the way we view and interpret his work. But Van Gogh, the artist and the man, was also inspired by the beauty and colors of nature, and expressed his passion in some of the most vibrant depictions of the natural world ever put on canvas. Van Gogh’s Flowers offers a refreshing look at this side of the artist’s life and work. Filled not only with beautiful paintings, but also with extracts from Van Gogh’s letters, this book offers a rich portrait of the joy and pleasure that Van Gogh experienced in his life and expressed with his brush.

Debra N. Mancoff is an art historian and author of several books on nineteenth-century European and American painting, including Mary Cassatt: Refl ections of Women’s Lives, Burne-Jones and David Roberts: Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land. She lives in Chicago, where she is a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library and also gives seminars at the School of the Art Institute. She has lectured at many of the major museums in the United States and Great Britain and in her career as a college professor she has taught numerous courses on European art and culture.