Getty Museum Acquires Landscape Drawing by Vincent van Gogh May
7, 2001 LOS ANGELES-The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired an
important landscape drawing, Arles: View from the Wheatfields
(1888), by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The pen and ink drawing
was made during van Gogh's stay in Arles, in southern France,
from February 1888 to May 1889, when he reached his artistic
zenith, producing many of the key works for which he is revered.
Arles: View from the Wheatfields is a defining image from this
period. Deborah Gribbon, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum
and vice president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, comments, "Arles:
View from the Wheatfields crowns the Museum's collection of
works by van Gogh. We had been actively seeking an iconic van
Gogh landscape, and are very fortunate to have made this
acquisition of one of his best renditions of the subject. The
drawing contains everything one associates with van Gogh's
genius: tremendously varied graphic strokes that fill and
activate the entire sheet, subject m