Where did Vincent Van Gogh paint "Starry Night", in as specific a location as possible?

lanfranco

No "specific" site can be named, because the famous painting is actually a conflation of previous works and drawings, done in Arles and Saint-Remy, with some creative additions. Such conflations are pretty common with painters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night Sep 28 07, 4:54 PM

star_gazer

You just named the specific location(s) - Arles and Saint-Remy! Now might you know Dr. lanfranco, or anyone else, where he was in those two towns when he did some of the work? A hint: He was outside. Sep 28 07, 5:12 PM

zbeckabee

When his health permitted...in the garden of his asylum. http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=12267&lang=en Here's a better link for the asylum: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/vincent-van-gogh-paintings-from-saint-remy1.htm My second link sounds as though the painting was done indoors? What's your take lanfranco? Sep 28 07, 5:20 PM

lanfranco

My "take" is precisely what I said: the painting is a conflation of various works and drawings over time, with imaginative additions. For example, "Starry Night over the Rhone" is not the same painting as the famous "Starry Night," and it was done in Arles. As the site points out, a variety of drawings were completed over the next year, and the well-known painting was probably done somewhere in the neighborhood of Saint-Remy -- though we do not know exactly where -- "pace" various sites on the subject. However, if you'd like to know the precise spot -- only assuming there is one -- I suggest you contact Marc Gotlieb, Associate Professor and Department Chair at the University of Toronto, who has recently completed a term as Editor-in-Chief of the "Art Bulletin" and is the newly-appointed Professor/Director of Graduate Studies at Williams College. He's a specialist on French painting and might enjoy the question. http://www.fineart.utoronto.ca/faculty/gotlieb.htm Sep 28 07, 6:58 PM