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Dear ArtConversation Visitors,

This exhibit at The Morgan was reviewed in New York Times several days ago....

Here is the online presentation from the Morgan Library & Museum:
http://www.themorgan.org/collections...ine.asp?id=600

From Scout Report 10/5/07:

16. Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Emile Bernard [Adobe
Flash Player]
http://www.themorgan.org/collections...ine.asp?id=600

Although there have been other Web-based presentations of van Gogh's letters that are more comprehensive (for example, van Gogh's Letters, Unabridged and Annotated, mentioned in the Sept. 24, 2004 Scout Report
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutR...nterest.php#2),
this set of seven letters between van Gogh and his young
colleague, Emile Bernard, presented by the Pierpont Morgan Library, is
designed to allow the viewer to get the full visual impact of the letters
themselves. Beginning with a thumbnail view of a handwritten letter, one can
choose to translate the text, and read, for example, van Gogh critiquing
several sonnets his young friend has sent, asking which Albrecht Durer
drawing was a poem's inspiration, and concluding, "But all in all it's not
as good as your painting yet. Never mind. It'll come, and you must certainly
continue doing sonnets." It is also possible to zoom in on the many drawings
that decorate the letters, such as "Still life with coffee pot", on the
back of a letter van Gogh sent to Bernard in June of 1888. Zooming in on
another letter from March 18, 1888, decorated with a sketch of people
walking on a footpath near a canal, reveals the color words that van Gogh
has written on the picture, indicating that the water will be green, the
shaded side of a bridge, purple, and the sky, yellow. [DS]

>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
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Here is New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/ar...gn/28vinc.html

“Painted With Words: Vincent van Gogh’s Letters to Émile Bernard” remains through Jan. 6 at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street; morganlibrary.org.

Enjoy,

Judy Decker