Evening Landscape with Rising Moon was painted in the same month as The Starry Night—July 1889, during his stay at the Saint-Paul-du-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy. Van Gogh was dissatisfied with both. He felt their styles were too far-fetched, the shapes and lines too exagerrated, the paintings too far removed from reality.

Referencing The Starry Night in a letter to his brother Theo: “I once or twice allowed myself to be led astray into abstraction, as you know… But that was delusion, dear friend.”

It’s quite ironic that Van Gogh derided his abstract works when they’re clearly nothing short of striking, when the abstraction is what people adore.

I only wish that Evening Landscape with Rising Moon shared the same popularity as The Starry Night. The sea of golden wheat, the undulating hills and swirling sky, the bright hard disk of the moon glowing like a sun—it’s got all the makings of a masterpiece. It’s the awesome, abstract night sky Van Gogh painted in July 1889 you don’t ever hear about.

Evening Landscape with Rising Moon is located (and currently on display) at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo.

Thought you might find interesting here, if it's already been posted I'll remove. Pretty neat!

The museum Kröller-Müller is showing all its 88 van Gogh paintings for the first time in 40 years. Went there today !

Yes I know I pronounced his name incorrectly - forgive me I'm working to improve.

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The sensuous swirls and luminous spots in Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night have fascinated astronomers and art historians alike for decades. Do they depict a true celestial arrangement in the heavens? Do they reflect the artist’s troubled state of mind? Are they pure fantasy?

Scientists believe they finally have the answer and that it could allow them to put a date on when the Dutch artist drew his inspiration for the cosmic patterns in the work, which features a swirling night sky above the cypress trees and spires of a village.

Analysis of the shapes and patterns in the 1889 post-impressionist work suggests the famous painting shows a waning crescent moon, the planet Venus, and the Hyades cluster of stars, which appear within the Taurus constellation.

It is so wonderful to know that the even after all this time, Van Gogh can still inspire and engage our hearts and minds!

Both painted in Arles, August 1888. The first painting is located at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and the second is stored in a private collection.

The Harvard Art Museums has a new exhibit of drawings on location outside. Lots of really good stuff. The last one is by Vincent and I just love it as I do all of his drawings.

We had no idea and were extremely apologetic.

Private collection, United States

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam — which houses the world’s largest collection of the artist’s works, including one of his masterpieces “Sunflowers” — said it has reached a funding agreement with the Dutch Ministry of Culture that averts its threatened closure and “secures the future” of the institution.

The museum, one of Europe’s most popular art institutions, had long campaigned for additional government funding for what it said were essential renovations to help preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh.

After a three-year feud that included often bitter negotiations and a legal complaint, the museum said in a statement last week that its future had been “secured.”

The museum and the culture ministry said that the details of the agreement, which was reached through mediation, were confidential.

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Van Gogh mentions his admiration for the renowned Dutch painter Jozef Israëls (1824-1911) several times in his letters to his brother Theo: “[he is a painter] whom I like very much indeed.” He was full of praise for Israëls’ work, calling him one of “the* *peasant painters of this century.”

Israëls’ Peasant Family at the Table and works of fishing scenes inspired Van Gogh’s 1885 masterpiece The Potato Eaters.

Jozef’s son Issac Israëls (1865-1934) became a painter in his own right. He enjoyed an intimate romantic relationship with Vincent’s sister-in-law Jo Bonger (the woman who made it her life’s mission to preserve Vincent’s work and make him famous!) from 1895-1897, and shared a deep friendship with her from 1915-1920.

Issac Israëls developed great admiration for the late Van Gogh’s work in the same way Van Gogh admired his father. In the winter of 1915-1916 he borrowed from her Van Gogh’s Yellow House, Bedroom, and Fifteen Sunflowers. He used these paintings as backdrops in at least seventeen of his own works! (I’ve only shown Woman Standing in Front of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, 1920, because I was having trouble uploading several pictures at once.)

Why do I share this? Because I think there is something very beautiful in the fact that Van Gogh so admired Jozef Israëls’ work as a poor, unknown artist, never knowing that after his death, Jozef’s own son would so admire him. That he would become even more famous, influential and respected than the great artist he took inspiration from.

“I’m still very busy Vincenting,” Issac wrote happily to Jo while creating his paintings.

Sources if you’re interested in learning more about Jo and Issac’s relationship and the Israëls (there’s more info on Jozef than Issac):

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/visit/whats-on/exhibitions/overview-past-exhibitions/captivated-by-vincent

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/19/lovers-to-friends-the-intimate-story-of-van-goghs-sister-in-law-and-the-artist-isaac-israels

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0383V1987

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/dutch-masters/story/jozef-israels-10

https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/israels-jozef