Van Gogh—The Life

Art Institute of Chicago Lectures

Dec 8, 2011Arts

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize winners for their biography on Jackson Pollock, presented their new book about Vincent Van Gogh to a packed house on December 8, 2011.

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