Images © Stichting Van Gogh Museum.
| Van Gogh sketches and writes in letters to his brother and other friends. He also makes sketches from the paintings he did and is pleased with. His sketchbooks have close studies for paintings, at the places he stays, i.e. rooms, cafes, hospital, farms, cities, street scenes, the mailman and his wife, farmers, gleaners, etc. and the people he meets, friends and fellow painters, he pays for models to draw from. Reed pen, pen and ink, pencil, black and brown inks, or watercolors. Artist: Vincent Van Gogh. Sketchbooks in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum. here. Also see book (facsimile edition), The Seven Sketchbooks of Vincent Van Gogh. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1986. |