The 2 “immersive” Van Gogh exhibitions to Los Angeles have not even opened but and we’re already a bit of fed up with them. There are no less than 5 totally different flavors of those occasions touring the nation this 12 months, however all of them comply with the identical primary system: blow up acquainted items like Sunflowers and The Starry Evening into wall-sized projections and promote tickets to them for over $ 30 to snap up social media feed.
However this is the factor: in Los Angeles, you may hold actual, unique Vincent van Gogh work in museums, and in some circumstances without cost. We won’t fairly match New York, Paris or Amsterdam in terms of the scale of their Van Gogh collections, however we nonetheless suppose LA has some formidable items by the well-known Publish-Impressionist which can be effectively price a go to .
See some actual Van Gogh work in LA simply right here, no overpriced spectacle tickets required.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los AngelesVincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) Iris, 1889, oil on canvas 74.3 × 94.3 cm (29 1/4 × 37 1/8 in.), 90.PA.20.
The Getty has 4 items in its assortment, together with two ink drawings and one watercolor, that aren’t at the moment on show. However you might be assured to at all times see Iris, a brightly coloured oil canvas that hangs on the second flooring of the west pavilion of the free museum. The flower examine was painted within the final 12 months of Van Gogh’s life when he was admitted to an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France – an immediately recognizable interval that additionally resulted in The Starry Evening.
Norton Simon Artwork Basis, present from Mr. Norton SimonVincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) Portrait of a Peasant (Endurance Escalier), August 1888 Oil on canvas.
The Pasadena establishment has extra Van Gogh works than some other SoCal museum: six oil work, an etching on paper (the one one Van Gogh ever created), an ink-and-gouache work, and an autographed letter, the a couple of month earlier than the artist died. 5 of the work are at the moment on show, together with an early profession nonetheless life and a snow scene, in addition to a portrait of his mom and one in every of a crested peasant used as a examine for Van Gogh’s first masterpiece, The. served potato eater. Additionally, you will discover the Portrait of a Farmer (Endurance Escalier), a powerfully expressive portray, because the artist himself described it, made throughout a breakthrough interval in Arles.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy Hospital, 1889. Oil on canvas. 36 5/16 x 28 7/8 in. (92.2 x 73.4 cm). The Armand Hammer Assortment, a present from the Armand Hammer Basis.
A programming observe to start out with: you will not see any Van Gogh work within the Hammer Museum proper now. However after Made in LA led to August, it is virtually sure that the Hospital at Saint-Rémy will probably be again on a wall within the Westwood Museum’s everlasting Armand Hammer Assortment. The swirling tree panorama was painted throughout the identical asylum keep as Irises, and you may hear an hour-long lecture by artwork historian John Walsh about that point, recorded as a part of a 2019 Van Gogh exhibition on the Hammer.
The museum additionally has some items in its archive, together with work The Sower and Backyard of the Nuenen Rectory, in addition to a print of the portrait of Dr. Gachet (the Norton Simon has an etching of the identical piece).
Courtesy of LACMAVincent van Gogh, The Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888.
Consider this as a bonus as it’s fairly unlikely that LACMA’s pair of Van Gogh drawings will probably be on show. Nonetheless, you may choose up a handkerchief with the museum drawing by the postman Joseph Roulin, a publication in reference to the exhibition “Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky” from 2014.
