Collection: Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

February 27 - May 22, 2022

The exhibition Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources presents paintings, drawings and prints by the artists most beloved by Vincent van Gogh, firmly connecting his art to its late 19th-century context. The exhibition will demonstrate Van Gogh’s early and abiding interest in a wide variety of art. To visually narrate the impact of Van Gogh’s sources, more than fifteen signature paintings and drawings by the artist himself will be juxtaposed with more than 100 works of art that fed his voracious imagination. The selection will include paintings by contemporary Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, and Alfred Sisley; earlier French artists such as Eugène Delacroix and Honoré Daumier; and Anton Mauve, Van Gogh’s cousin who was part of the Hague School of Dutch realists. Nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige, who influenced Van Gogh’s art profoundly, are included as well.
 
The Columbus exhibition will include 61 works from the private collection of Steven Naifeh, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning co-writer and of the best-selling biography Van Gogh: The Life. Gregory Smith (1951–2014), Naifeh’s husband and co-author of the book, was raised in Columbus. Among works loaned from the Naifeh collection are paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jozef Israëls, and Paul Sérusier. Other lenders to the exhibition include the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (Spain); Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (Netherlands); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; and numerous private collections.
 
The exhibition will also emphasize Vincent’s robust appetite for literature and the fictional worlds of the modern novel. The installation will include early editions of beloved novels by Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola, to remind viewers of the fictional worlds that impacted Van Gogh’s vision.
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Les Vessenots in Auvers by Vincent van Gogh
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Undergrowth with Two Figures by Vincent van Gogh
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The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji) by Katsushika Hokusai
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Houses at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh
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La Revue Blanche by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Roses by Vincent van Gogh
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Sheaves of Wheat by Vincent van Gogh
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Tarascon Stagecoach by Vincent van Gogh
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Self-portrait with Pipe by Vincent van Gogh
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Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen) by Paul Gauguin
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Downpour at Ohashi Bridge, Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), no. 52 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei) by Utagawa Hiroshige,
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Irises at Horikiri, no. 56 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige
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Peonies by Eduard Manet
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Place de Clichy by Paul Signac
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Woman Walking on the Banks of the Aven by Émile Bernard
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Landscape at Le Pouldu by Paul Serusier
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The Sower by Jean-François Millet
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The Outskirts of Paris by Vincent van Gogh
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Foreign Visitors at the Louvre by James Tissot
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Wheat Field (Le Champ de Blé) by Vincent Van Gogh
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Plum Garden at Kameido, from the Series One Hundred Scenic Spots of Edo by Andō Hiroshige
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Woman Reading (Femme lisant) by Armand Guillaumin
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La fin de la séance: The End of the Pose by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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The Absinthe Drinkers by Jean-François Raffaëlli
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Avenue de Clichy (Street—Five O'clock in the Evening) by Louis Anquetin
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Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry by Katsushika Hokusai
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Hospital at Saint-Rémy by Vincent Van Gogh
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