During his sojourn in The Hague van Gogh had tried to represent a modern city as it changed and expanded. His attention was focused on the uneven edges where town and country met, often awkwardly: straggling housing developments, iron-rolling mills in meadows beside windmills, new streets, as yet unbuilt, marked out by lamp-posts.
He had been experimenting with oil during his stay in The Hague, whose modern urban life he had tried to depict, but not to his satisfaction. In September 1883 he moved out of the city to the northern province of Drenthe, where he painted this study of moss-covered thatched farm buildings.
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Summary of works by Vincent van Gogh |
Early paintings (1881-85) |
Etten, The Hague | Nuenen | The Potato Eaters | Antwerp |
Paris (1886-87) |
Flower and other still-lifes | Various |
Arles (1888-89) |
Orchards in Blossom | Portraits |
January-August 1888 | September 1888-April 1889 |
Asylum in Saint-Rémy (1889-90) |
Environs | Cypresses and olive groves |
Copies after other artists | Miscellaneous |
Auvers-sur-Oise (1890) |
Last paintings (May-July 1890) |
Self-portraits (1886-89) |
Self-portraits in chronological order |
Graphics |
Lithographs | Watercolours | Drawings | 1 | 2 | 3 |