Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources

This exhibition seeks to immerse viewers in the visual imagination of one of the most beloved artists in the world. Presenting 20 works of art by Van Gogh alongside some 75 objects selected to reflect the surprisingly varied art that he most admired, the show firmly reconnects Vincent to his late 19th-century context. Over 60 artists are represented in the exhibition, including Jules Breton, Anton Mauve, Adolphe Monticelli, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, Jean-François Raffaëlli and a host of other names less familiar to most American audiences, as well as the better known Romantic master Eugène Delacroix, the artists of the Barbizon school and the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin. By juxtaposing celebrated artworks by Van Gogh with works by the many artists he admired, the show seeks to foreground both Vincent's indebtedness to and radical departure from the art world of his day. The exhibition also taps into Van Gogh's literary imagination by displaying first-editions of novels by Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy and Edgar Allan Poe to conjure up the fictional worlds that enflamed Vincent's inner eye.

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Dates and Times for this Past Event

• Sunday, May 22, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Saturday, May 21, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Friday, May 20, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Thursday, May 19, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Wednesday, May 18, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Tuesday, May 17, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Sunday, May 15, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Saturday, May 14, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Friday, May 13, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Thursday, May 12, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Wednesday, May 11, 2022  11 am - 5 pm
• Tuesday, May 10, 2022  11 am - 5 pm