Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought of traveling. Last week two more neglected literary treasures made their appearance. Both were of modest historical significance, both made interesting reading, both dealt with the troubles of seamen...
...sufficiently impressed to sit down at her typewriter, compose a long, yearning letter to the magazine. To Mademoiselle's editors Barbara Phillips announced that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent van Gogh, Beatrice Lillie and Princes Natalie Paley, she still stood in need of advice on "how to do my hair, powder my nose, cultivate sex appeal and walk a straight line...
LETTERS TO AN ARTIST-Vincent van Gogh-Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them...
...Current Affairs Test, Question No. 105, you state: "A 19th Century French painter who is famous for the distinctive yellow coloring . . . ." The answer you give is Van Gogh...
...Gogh was not a Frenchman. He was born in Zundert, Brabant province, The Netherlands, son of a Dutch clergyman and his wife, Anna Cornelia. It is true that his distinctive yellow coloring was developed during his residence...