Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun, oil on canvas, 1889. Van Gogh painted several of his most famous works while at the asylum, including his Iris series and The Starry Night. In May of 1889 ...

Scattered across a field, half a dozen cypress trees stood like shaggy sentinels ... to Arles to take photographs in the places Vincent van Gogh painted 130 years ago. But, even as he stood ...