I would like to thank my writing partners, Diana Negoescu and Keerthi Shetty; my website revision group; as well as my class, WRI 152, for their very valuable input throughout the process of writing this essay.

I. Paintings

Millet, Jean-Francois. The Gleaners. 1857. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France .
Van Gogh, Vincent. Arles: View from the Wheat Fields. 1888. Musee Rodin, Paris, France.

Van Gogh, Vincent. At Eternity’s Gate. 1882. Vincent van Gogh National Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Boy with a Sickle. 1881. Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo Holland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Man at the Fireplace. 1881. Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Holland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Peasant Woman Stooping and Gleaning. 1885. Museum Folkwang, Essen.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Peasant Women in the Fields. 1883. Vincent van Gogh National Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Portrait of Camille Roulin. 1888 or 1889. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.

Van Gogh, Vincent. The Postman Joseph Roulin. 1888. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. The Potato Eaters. 1885. Vincent van Gogh National Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. The Sower. 1881. Vincent Van Gogh National Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

Van Gogh, Vincent. The Sower. 1888. Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo,

Van Gogh, Vincent. Still Life with Bible. 1885. Vincent Van Gogh National Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

II. Other Works

Barrielle, Jean-Francois. The Life and Work of Vincent van Gogh. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1984.

Edwards, Cliff. Van Gogh and God: A Creative Spiritual Quest. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1989.

Ives, Colta, Susan Alyson Stein, et al. Vincent van Gogh - The Drawings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Kroller-Muller Museum. Vincent van Gogh Paintings in the collection of the Kroller-Muller Museum. Otterlo, Holland: Kroller-Muller Museum, 2003.

Leeuw, Ronald de, ed. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. London: The Penguin Press, 1996.

Meissner, S.J., M.D., W.W. Vincent’s Religion - The Search for Meaning. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Stolwijk, Chris, et al. Vincent’s Choice - The Musee imaginaire of Van Gogh. Amsterdam, Holland: Van Gogh Museum/Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

Van Tilborgh, Louis. The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh. Zwolle, Holland: Waanders Publishers, 1993.

“Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters.” The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. 15 January 2006. http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/collection/catalog/vgmpainting.asp?ARTID=1&SEL=1V.