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

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

Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...

The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), detail. Collection of the Museum of Modern ...

In one emotional and creative room called “Letters from the Postman,” a sea of pedestals contain letters written by Joseph Roulin to van Gogh and his family after the artist’s infamous ear ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Postman Joseph Roulin” (1888) (© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes ...

On 25 May 1924 the newspaper reported that the portrait of Joseph Roulin had been hanging in “a place of honour in the Modern Foreign Art section”—but it had then disappeared. Article in ...

The exhibition focuses on Van Gogh’s time in France, where he formed a friendship with the local postman, Joseph Roulin, and his family. Banners for the Museum of Fine Arts’ Van Gogh exhibition on ...

Joseph Roulin, a postman, was Van Gogh’s closest friend in Arles. Vincent painted not only him, but also his wife Augustine and their three children. Van Gogh and Roulin were drinking companions ...