Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Hospital at Saint-Rémy
Alternate Title:
Trees in the Garden of the Hospital Saint-Paul
Image View:
Detail, bottom center
Creator:
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter, 1853-1890)
Location:
repository: UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Location Note:
10899 Wilshire Blvd.; The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation
GPS:
34.059444-118.443611
Date:
1889 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Post-Impressionist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
92.2 cm (height) x 73.4 cm (width)
Subjects:
architecture; landscape; Hammer Museum; sanatorium; mental illness
Description:
Van Gogh voluntarily entered the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausol e at Saint-Rémy in March 1889. Over the course of the year he spent in his two rooms at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted approximately 150 works, many depicting, in his typical impasto style, the grounds and interiors of the asylum. Catalogue raisonné, F643; JH1799. (Source: Hammer Museum, UCLA [website]; http://hammer.ucla.e du/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GOGH-HM-TGSP-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Hospital at Saint-Rémy