To greet the New Year we have a visual game to play that takes us from the typeface of Twitter to the painterly loops of Paul Gauguin....

We'll let Gauguin get on with it in Pont Aven and shift our attention today to a young woman in Amsterdam who, while Gauguin was making...

On the first day in nearly a month in which I have been able to carve out space for Flowers and Fruit, the Gallica BnF website is...

I learned something last Thursday that merits an interruption. Vincent will continue to be sad and desperate, and Gauguin will continue...

On Friday December 13, 1889, Gauguin wrote a long catching-up letter to van Gogh. Van Gogh was convalescing in the asylum at Saint-Rémy...

In 1938, a man named Jean-Albert Schmit donated a scrapbook of letters, photographs, and sketches to the Louvre. The oblong album was...

If you tap at the archives for long enough, a few cracks start to show. Follow the cracks and you can begin to pick off the layers...

Though there's a question as to whether Fruit in a Bowl was the still life Gauguin showed at the 8th Impressionist Exhibition, there's no...

When I was growing up in North Carolina, the worst thing that my grandmother could say about someone was that he was not a nice man. My...

Connecting Louis Roy to Paul Gauguin was one of my first tasks. Roy was difficult to track down, but one connection was easy to find: ...

In June 1929, the art dealer Paul Reinhardt sailed from New York to Southampton, England, on the White Star Line’s “Majestic.” Reinhardt...

This blog is a mystery, a travelogue across time and place, and a memoir about life and art, museums and research.

Last week the Parisian daily Le Figaro announced that the Getty Museum had downgraded a sculpture previously attributed to Paul Gauguin...

So here I was with a painting by an important post-Impressionist artist that no one in the museum world outside of Stockton, CA, had...

There's been a painting newly re-attributed to Van Gogh this week. This self-portrait that lives in the National Gallery in Oslo has...

On my first visit to the Haggin Museum, in January 2016, I saw Flowers and Fruit: a fairly traditional still life of a few bumpy apples...

Poppies got my attention because the circumstances—the regional museum, the work questioned by experts—were so similar to Flowers and...

A disputed Van Gogh is authenticated by experts.

One of those still lifes travels the world today as an authentic painting by Paul Gauguin. One hangs in

If I were not able to access archives online as much as I can...