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

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...

One of the most famous and iconic artists today is undoubtedly Vincent van Gogh. He is the most ‘known’ name in the art world ...

The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s intense devotion to painting—even through deep sorrow and unbearable hallucinations.

Joseph Roulin may be dressed in his smart blue government uniform ... Today, in their ornate and heavy frames, Van Gogh’s massively insured paintings look canonical and timeless.

And the intense blue sky above. Inside, I can live and breathe, and think and paint.” Before leaving Paris, Van Gogh painted an 1887 self portrait, on loan here from the Wadsworth Atheneum ...

It was also during this period that he befriended Roulin, the blue-uniformed ... featuring 14 of paintings from the series. Shy, asocial, and debilitatingly lonely, van Gogh found a kindred ...

JoEllen Kwiatek's work has been published in "The Antioch Review" and "The American Poetry Review." She has also received a ...