The Olive Trees

Vincent van Gogh · Saint Rémy, June-July 1889

You're looking at The Olive Trees, painted the same June as The Starry Night, from the same asylum, in the same few weeks. Think of it as the daytime twin: the same restless drawing, turned on a hillside in full light.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 28 5/8 x 36" (72.6 x 91.4 cm) · Credit Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 501: Pines and Rocks (Fontainebleau?), Drawing of Scene 9: Landing Right in the Moon's Eye!!! of the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Unknown Pleasures, Museum of Vulcanism, Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Auvergne, France, Exterior perspective

More by Vincent van Gogh here: The Starry Night