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
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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
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