The first major American retrospective devoted to Van Gogh’s decadelong achievement as a draftsman, featuring more than 100 of his finest works in pen and ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, and watercolor.
These graphic images, lent by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and from 50 other public and private collections, brilliantly illustrate Vincent’s own dictum: “Drawing is the root of everything.”

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Cypresses, 1889
Oil on canvas; 93.4 x 74 cm (36 3/4 x 29 1/8 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1949 (49.30)
I went to see this exhibition last Thursday and I was so happy … what a great artist … we are so fortunate to see such a retrospective in one place! … I went back with Angela on Friday …
“Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings,” October 18, 2005 – December 31, 2005, Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street

• “Van Gogh: Expressive With a Brush, or a Pen,” by Carol Vogel, The New York Times, October 11, 2005
• “Scribble Scribble: How Van Gogh rendered his flickery world in the hard lines of pen and ink,” by Mark Stevens, New York, October 24, 2005

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