Happy Birthday, Vincent van Gogh!

Today is the  birthday of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.  This is pretty exciting, because although I have been reading the latest biography on van Gogh, his birthday, like many people's birthdays, slip my mind.  And, I am going to the van Gogh exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art tomorrow. Very exciting.  So, here is some biographical information on the man himself, as well as a link to "My Gallery" of van Gogh works through the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, ^[1][2] he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found).^{[3][note 2]} His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still (from Wikipedia).