In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin family portraits.

Van Gogh’s postman: the artist's favourite portrait subject to be explored in Boston and Amsterdam shows Vincent described his friend as having “a big, bearded face, very Socratic” Martin Bailey ...

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is the first exhibition to be devoted to the paintings of the “postman” and his family. Opening soon at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (30 March-7 ...

MFA Boston debuts first Van Gogh exhibition dedicated to portraits of the Roulin Family Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (detail), 1889. Oil on canvas.

The most notable modern works, among the 33 that Glackens sent home, included the great Postman that van Gogh had painted back in 1889.

Vincent van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (center) and Frans Hals’ "Merry Drinker" (left) installed in the MFA's exhibit "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits." ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh created of the postman and his wife and children in the late 1880s.

Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France? The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.