![]() ![]() Now available in a six-volume scholarly collection of 819 letters Vincent wrote to Theo and various family members and friends-as well as 83 letters he received-the full correspondence shows us a man who “could write very expressively and had a powerful ability to evoke a scene or landscape with well-chosen words.” So write the Van Gogh Museum, who also host all of those letters online, with thoroughly annotated English translations, manuscript facsimiles, and more. Compiled and published by Theo’s wife, Johanna, Van Gogh’s correspondence became instrumental in spreading his fame as both an artist and as a chronicler of deep emotional experiences and religious and philosophical convictions. ![]() That first published collection consisted only of the painter’s 651 letters to his younger brother, Theo, who died six months after Vincent. ![]()
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