Van Gogh's olive trees series has never before been the subject of a dedicated exhibition of its own. It will travel to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam next spring.

Van Gogh’s Olive Trees (September 1889) Private collection. Research for the Dallas-Amsterdam exhibition has now sorted out the sequence of the 15 paintings.

When Vincent van Gogh check himself into an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889, he created a series of paintings evocative of Provence through an unexpected motif: olive trees.

He was given a spare room for painting and, after some time, was allowed to venture outside, which is when—in June—he came across the local olive trees. It was not van Gogh’s first encounter ...

Van Gogh’s Olive Trees (November 1889), with the area of the fingerprint indicated with a red square. Courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Art (William Hood Dunwoody Fund f710, Jh1856) ...

Vincent van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” Painting Has a Grasshopper Stuck Inside of It. It's been there for over a century. by Marissa G. Muller. November 8, 2017. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Van Gogh and the Olive Groves follows the artist’s journey with this subject, comprising 15 paintings that capture olive trees at different times of day and in different seasons.

Additional research on Van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” is underway. The painting is available for viewing at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

Vincent van Gogh painted his Olive Trees series in 1889 while staying in an asylum in the south of France.(AP: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) ...

During these months olive trees captivated the centrality of Van Gogh’s artistic thoughts. He wrote to Theo “The murmur of an olive grove has something very intimate, immensely old about it”.

They may not be quite as famous as his sunflowers or self-portraits, but Vincent van Gogh’s olive-tree paintings still represent an important entry in his sprawling oeuvre of more than 2,000 ...