Donated by art collector Lillie P. Bliss to the Museum of Modern Art, this painting most prominently uses citron yellow and Prussian blue.
An Alma Thomas painting that combines the title of this work with "and the Astronauts" consists of dabs of varying shades of blue arranged in vertical stripes, with a small patch of red, orange, and yellow in the upper- right. A sketch for an earlier work on the same subject accompanied a letter from this painting's artist to his friend Eugene Boch. That preceding work features "two colorful little figures of lovers in the foreground," as well as a curving river-walk whose lights reflect in long vertical streaks on the water. This painting borrows its landscape of the (*) Alpilles mountains from another view, which was not visible from the artist's window. Donated by art collector Lillie P. Bliss to the Museum of Modern Art, this painting most prominently uses citron yellow and Prussian blue. This work was preceded by a similar scene set on the banks of the Rhône. For 10 points, name this work by Vincent van Gogh painted from an asylum in Saint Rémy, featuring a tall cypress tree in the foreground.
An Alma Thomas painting that combines the title of this work with "and the Astronauts" consists of dabs of varying shades of blue arranged in vertical stripes, with a small patch of red, orange, and yellow in the upper- right.
The Starry Night