Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Hospital at Saint-Rémy

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-Mausole 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.edu/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-GOGH-HM-TGSP-A02
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.