1888
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1888
Showing 20 works across all media from 1888
Cafe Terrace at Night
1888 · Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
Van Gogh set up outside and painted the terrace on the spot after dark, pleased that he had used no black at all.
★ 7.5
The Night Cafe
1888 · Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
Van Gogh wanted a room where a man could ruin himself or go mad, and got it with red walls and a green ceiling.
★ 7.5
Starry Night Over the Rhone
1888 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Gaslights along the Arles quay drop long quivering reflections into the water, the Great Bear overhead, a couple walking arm in arm below.
★ 7.2
The Models
1888 · The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Philadelphia
Seurat painted this to prove the dots could handle a nude, and hung his own Grande Jatte on the studio wall behind them.
★ 6.8
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
1888
The pianist he wrote it for called it worthless and unplayable, so Tchaikovsky premiered it in Boston instead, where it was a triumph.
★ 6.6
The Last of the Buffalo
1888 · Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
Bierstadt painted this vast hunt as the herds were nearing extinction, with skulls and bones already lying across the foreground.
★ 5.4
Invictus · 1888
★ 3.5
The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.
The American Commonwealth · 1888
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.
The Phantom Rickshaw · 1888
The American Commonwealth · 1888