The Oklahoma City Museum of Art presents a James C. Meade Friends’ Lecture by Dr. Gloria Groom, Chair of European Painting and Sculpture and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago
Van Gogh’s Bedrooms
Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles is arguably the most famous chambre in the history of art and the painting the artist considered his finest. He painted the first version of The Bedroom, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, just after moving into his “Yellow House” in Arles. So important was this composition that after his hospitalization, Vincent returned to this canvas and made two distinct copies: one almost identical and on the same scale, now at the Art Institute of Chicago; and a smaller version, in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, which he made as a gift for his mother and sister. In this lecture Dr. Groom will offer an insider view of the exhibition Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, which opened for an exclusive run at the Art Institute in February and will close May 10, 2016. She will look at the way these paintings, which will be reunited for the first time ever in North America, fit into the artist’s life, and the documentary, scientific, and physical evidence pertaining to all three versions. She will also explore the significance of the motif for Vincent—as refuge, nest, creative chamber, and finally, as a physical reality.
Free for Members | $5 for Non-Members. Tickets available at the door. First come, first served for theater seating. Located in the Samuel Roberts Noble Theater at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
