van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 and 2 Dec-Jan 1882)
... because it cuts through it. But it occurred to me to make a drawing first with carpenter's pencil and then to work in and over it with lithographic crayon, which (because of the greasiness of the material) fixes the pencil, a thing ordinary crayon...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 2 March 1883)
... accentuate the lights with Chinese white. Do you remember that last summer you brought me pieces of mountain crayon? I tried to work with it at the time, but it didn't work well. So a few pieces were left, which I picked up the other day; enclosed you'll find...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 4 March 1883)
... effect of the windows in the studio. Will you do me a very great favour - send me a few pieces of that crayon by mail? There is a soul and life in that crayon - I think conté pencil is dead. Two violins may look the same on the outside,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 5 March 1883)
... rather expensive: 1.75 guilders per sheet. The lithographic crayon - likewise made expressly for this paper - is more expensive than the ordinary kind, and in my opinion much worse than the crayon that is not expressly made for it. Autographic ink, liquid...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(11 March 1883)
... are least expensive so much despised? As to the crayon, I do not know whether the one you gave me came from the Plaats, but I am quite sure that you gave it to me on your visit of last summer, or perhaps when I was still in Etten. In a drug store I found...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 21 March 1883)
... that one can find the same effect again. I'm very glad to hear you found the crayon. It didn't arrive in today's mail, however, though you wrote you had sent it. If you have forgotten it, I remind you of it again, and if you have already sent it, it will certainly...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21-28 March 1883)
... it is vivid and powerful enough. I believe I've already written to you that I was able to find some mountain chalk here in the city. I am at work with that, as well. To my mind the cold spell we had last week was the most perfect part of this...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(21-28 March 1883)
... window at a landscape in the snow. I have found the “black mountain crayon” I wrote you about here in this city too; it is something which was virtually unknown to me until recently. But now I discover that it is not so rare - and perhaps you...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 and 1 March-April 1883)
... and White” exhibition. I received the crayon - many thanks - it is very good. But it is softer than the kind you gave me the first time, and the pieces are half as long. I am still anxious to get that harder kind in larger pieces, but nevertheless I'm...

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