Starry Night is a beautiful oil painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist, Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts a night sky filled with swirling stars and a bright crescent moon. The painting is one of van Gogh's most famous works and is considered to be a
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary 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. Described as a "touchstone of modern art", The Starry Night has been regarded as one of the most recognizable paintings in the Western canon.