The expression dates from the early part of the 19th century. keep oneâs chin up To maintain oneâs courage and resolve, to keep oneâs spirits up, to keep oneâs head held high. This American expression has been in use since at least 1938. Keep your chin up honey.
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) McLean wrote âVincent,â also known as âStarry, Starry Night,â in the fall of 1970, while he was working for the Berkshire School District. He was living in the Sedgwick House, a beautiful Federal style house in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
In 1985, UCLA art historian Albert Boime compared Starry Night to a planetarium recreation of how the night's sky would have appeared on June 19, 1889. The similarities were striking, and proved that van Gogh's morning star, as referenced in his letter to his brother, was in fact the planet Venus.