The Starry Night / by Vincent van Gogh / Canvas Print

Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night (1889, Vincent van Gogh in the Van Gogh Museum) / The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it describes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an ideal village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, The Starry Night is one of the most recognised paintings in the history of Western culture