Girl in White in the Woods

Girl in White in the Woods
Girl in White in the Woods
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	1882
Catalogue	F8; JH182;
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	39.0 cm × 59.0 cm (15.4 in × 23.2 in)
Location	Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Girl in White in the Woods is an oil painting created in 1882 by Vincent van Gogh.

Of a study that Van Gogh made for Girl in a Wood or Girl in White in the Woods,^[1] he remarked at how much he enjoyed the work and explains how he wishes to trigger the audience's senses and how they may experience the painting: "The other study in the wood is of some large green beech trunks on a stretch of ground covered with dry sticks, and the little figure of a girl in white. There was the great difficulty of keeping it clear, and of getting space between the trunks standing at different distances - and the place and relative bulk of those trunks change with the perspective - to make it so that one can breathe and walk around in it, and to make you smell the fragrance of the wood."^[2]

References

^ "Girl in a wood". Collection. Kröller-Müller Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ Harrison, R, ed. (2011). "Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, 20 August 1882". Letters of Vincent van Gogh. van Gogh, J (trans.). WebExhibits. Retrieved 12 April 2011.