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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1 November 1880)
72 Boulevard du Midi Dear Theo, In answer to your letter I will tell you a few things. First, I went to see Mr. Roelofs the day after receiving your letter. He told me that in his opinion from now on I must draw principally from nature, that is, from either plaster cast or model, but not without the guidance of someone who knows it well. He - and others too - have advised me so earnestly to go and work at the academy, either here or in Antwerp or wherever I can, that I felt obliged to try to get admitted to the said academy, though I don't think it so very pleasant. Here in Brussels the teaching is free of charge (in Amsterdam, for instance, I hear it costs 100 guilders a year) and one can work in a well-heated and well-lighted room, which is good, especially in winter. I get on very well with the Bargues, I am making progress. Besides that, lately I have been busy drawing something that took a lot of work, but still I am glad I have done it: I drew a rather large-sized skeleton with pen and ink on five ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(January 1881)
... drawn a landscape - a heath - a thing I had not done for ... I love landscape very much, but I love ten times more those ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 April 1881)
... His pen-and-ink drawings of landscape are very witty and ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(Aug/Sep 1881)
... exhibition shows clearly that there are many clever landscape ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(September 1881)
... As for landscape, I don't see why it need suffer in ... hard at work. He sent me some very good landscape sketches. I ... |
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