1890

Showing 45 works across all media from 1890

Wheatfield with Crows

1890 · Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Three paths run into the wheat and none of them go anywhere. Painted at Auvers in his last weeks, and read too neatly ever since.

★ 7.7

Portrait · Post-Impressionism

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Vincent van Gogh

1890 · Private collection

The doctor who was caring for him leans his head on one hand, a sprig of foxglove on the table, the background rippling blue.

★ 7.5

Flower painting · Post-Impressionism

Almond Blossoms

Vincent van Gogh

1890 · Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

He painted it for his brother's newborn son, named Vincent after him, and cropped the boughs against the sky like a Japanese print.

★ 7.2

Fiction · Modernism

Starving in Kristiania, the city that became Oslo, a young writer gives away money he lacks and refuses food when offered. Hamsun tracks a mind sliding toward derangement, and modern fiction followed.

★ 7.0

Novel · Magazine

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 5.5

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four · 1890

★ 5.4

Psychological literature

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.4

Nonfiction · Social criticism

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis

1890 · 228 pages

Riis went into New York's tenements at night with a camera and flash powder, and brought back the room where twelve people slept. Roosevelt sought him out, and the worst blocks came down.

★ 5.4

Psychological literature

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

William James

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.3

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set in their lands. They sent 10,000 horsemen to battle. Where are the warriors to-day? Who slew them? Where are our lands ? Who owns them ? What white man can say I ever stole his lands or a penny of his money? Yet they say I am a thief. What white woman, however lonely, was ever when a captive insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and gone unfed ? Who has ever seen me beat my wives or abuse my children ? What law have I broken ? Is it wrong for me to love my own ? Is it wicked in me because my skin is red ; because I am a Sioux ; because I was born where my fathers lived ; because I would die for my people and my country ?

Sitting Bull

1890

★ 5.3

Personal journal

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!...In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house of one room—the world with the firmament for its roof—and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.