The Museum of Modern Art in New York is considered by many to have the best collection of modern Western masterpieces in the world, MoMA’s holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills. Here you can find Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night”.
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The Starry Night (1889)
- Oil on canvas
- 29 x 36 1/4 inches
- 73.7 x 92.1 cm
Perhaps Van Gogh’s most famous painting, The Starry Night is known to be a representation of what the artist saw outside his window in the Saint-Rémy asylum at night.
Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889)
- Oil on canvas
- 25 3/8 x 21 3/4 inches
- 64.4 x 55.2 cm
Joseph Roulin was a postal employee and close friend of the artist during his stay in Arles. The Roulin family were the subjects of many of Van Gogh’s paintings.
The Olive Trees (1889)
- Oil on canvas
- 28 5/8 x 36 inches
- 72.6 x 91.4 cm
This painting is one of the 15 renditions of olive trees created by the artist after his confinement at an asylum in Southern France.