Exchanging Van Goghs

The Paintings

Listed below are the paintings mentioned in the book. Click on a title to see a reproduction of that painting online.


Edgar Degas
1834-1917, French

Dancers at the Barre, c. 1900
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Dancers at the Barre
Edgar Degas, Dancers at the Barre, c. 1900, oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Photographed by Joe Beine, April, 2013.

Blue Dancers, c. 1898
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow


Utagawa Hiroshige
1797-1858, Japanese

Benzaiten Shrine at Inokashira in the Snow, c. 1838-1840
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Plum Estate, Kameido, 1857
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Edouard Manet
1832-1883, French

Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, 1872
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Bouquet of Violets, 1872
Private Collection


Claude Monet
1840-1926, French

Morning on the Seine, Giverny, 1897
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts

Morning on the Seine, Giverny by Claude Monet
Claude Monet, Morning on the Seine (detail), 1897, oil on canvas. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Photo taken at the Denver Art Museum by Joe Beine, January, 2020.

Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist), 1897
Art Institute of Chicago

General View of Rouen, 1892
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

The Meadow at Giverny, 1888
Private Collection

Charing Cross Bridge, 1899
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Charing Cross Bridge by Claude Monet

Charing Cross Bridge (detail) by Claude Monet
Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, 1899, oil on canvas. Collection of Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Photos by Joe Beine, taken at the Denver Art Museum, November, 2019 and January, 2020.


Berthe Morisot
1841-1895, French

The Psyche Mirror, 1876
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

The Garden at Bougival, 1884
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Julie Daydreaming, 1894
Private Collection

The Forest of Compiègne, 1885
Art Institute of Chicago


Camille Pissarro
1830-1903, French

The Artist's Garden at Eragny, 1898
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The Artist's Garden at Eragny
Camille Pissarro, The Artist's Garden at Eragny, 1898, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photographed by Joe Beine, April, 2013.


Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919, French

Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881, oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Photographed by Joe Beine, April, 2013.


Mark Rothko
1903-1970, American, born Russia

I have included catalog numbers (CR) from David Anfam's Mark Rothko: the Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University Press, 1998).

No. 14 (White and Greens in Blue), 1957, CR 588
Private Collection

No. 5, 1964, CR 778
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Orange and Red on Red, 1957, CR 599
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Untitled, 1947, CR 352
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Untitled, 1969, CR 815
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC


Clyfford Still
1904-1980, American

PH-401, 1957
Clyfford Still Museum, Denver

Clyfford Still, PH-401 (detail), 1887
Clyfford Still, PH-401 (detail), 1957, oil on canvas. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver. Photographed by Joe Beine, January, 2013.


Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775-1851, British

Norham Castle, Sunrise, c.1845
Tate Museum, London

Venice with the Salute, c.1840-5
Tate Museum, London


Vincent van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch

Irises, 1889
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies
Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889; Oil on canvas; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.

View of Paris from Montmartre, 1886
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

The White Orchard, 1888
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Landscape with Snow, 1888
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Path in the Woods, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

View of Paris, 1886
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies, 1887
Triton Collection Foundation

Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies
Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies (detail), 1887, oil on canvas. Triton Collection Foundation. Photographed at the Denver Art Museum's In Bloom exhibit by Joe Beine, August, 2015.

Edge of a Wheat Field with Poppies, 1887
Denver Art Museum (bequest of Frederic C. Hamilton)

Trees and Undergrowth, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

River Bank in Springtime, 1887
Dallas Museum of Art

Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed, 1887
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Almond Blossom, 1890
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Undergrowth with Two Figures, 1890
Cincinnati Art Museum



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