The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh · Saint Rémy, June 1889

This is The Starry Night. Van Gogh painted it in June eighteen eighty-nine from his room at the asylum at Saint-Rémy, looking out through a barred window. The village underneath is invented — stitched together from memory, since there was no village to see.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 29 x 36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 501: Still Life with Three Puppies, Grandcamp, Evening

More by Vincent van Gogh here: The Olive Trees