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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

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Vincent van Gogh "Bulb Fields (Flower Beds In Holland)" 1883.

"Reclaimed from sea-bottom mud containing the perfect mix of sand and clay for growing flowers. The Hague in May was a veritable Eden: flowers bloomed in unrivaled abundance on roadsides and canal banks, in parks and gardens, on balconies and verandas, in window boxes and doorstep pots, even on the barges that glided by. Perpetual moisture from tree-shaded ponds and canals "seemed every morning to paint with a newer and more intense green," wrote one enchanted visitor."

—Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

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Dressed as a sunflower to go to the Van Gogh immersive experience in Chicago! He’s one of my favorite artists—I loved his biography written by Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh—and the projected light show captured a lot about how he saw the world and how he painted. It was a romantic, lovely day.

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It is only a very small light ... but let me keep it burning.

Vincent Van Gogh, from Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

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I invent some errand to go there whenever possible," [Vincent] admitted, because bookshops "always remind me that there are good things in the world.

Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 

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The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else.

Vincent van Gogh

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Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Jackson Pollock and Van Gogh: The Life, Dies at 62

Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Jackson Pollock and Van Gogh: The Life, Dies at 62

Gregory White Smith, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jackson Pollock and the definitive biography of Vincent van Gogh, has died peacefully at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, which he shared with his partner of 40 years, Steven Naifeh.  The cause of death was a rare brain tumor which Mr. Smith battled for almost four decades.  He was 62

In addition to writing 18 books with Mr.…

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Other students relax, stretch out, spread their legs, lean back, look distractedly to the side. But not Vincent. With his drooping cheeks and perpetual pout, he hunkers within himself and glumly peers into the camera as if spying the world from a hidden, solitary redoubt.

Van Gogh: The Life - Steven Nafigh and Gregory White Smith