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Article: Pursuing the elusive van Gogh.(traveling exhibit of 70 Vincent Van Gogh paintings; boon on Van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Erickson)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 20, 1999
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Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; October 4 to January 3.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; January 17 to April 4.
At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh.
By Kathleen Powers Erickson. Eerdmans, 192 pp., $22.00.
WHO CAN RESIST trying to solve the mystery of Vincent van Gogh's life and work? We continue to be haunted by this Dutch Reform clergyman's son, who failed to qualify as a pastor, was rejected as a missionary, and turned to art as a second choice when he was 27. He died at 37, and so had barely ten years to move from his first ...