Van Gogh There

Plus: Da Vinci, Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Hiroshige, Hopper and Pollock--and an amazing "alt" Bob Dylan track.

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS. Before all that, he was a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free.

Below you’ll find the third offering in our new weekly collection of my photographs with a central theme. Visits with seven painters: DaVinci, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Hopper, Monet, Pollock, Hiroshige. Next week: some beloved sculptors. But first: 50 years ago this week, Joni Mitchell’s greatest (and best-selling) album “Court and Spark,” and Dylan “comeback” album with the Band, “Planet Waves,” were released. Here’s a haunting demo version (with one of Bob’s best vocals) of a memorable track, “Going, Going, Gone” (no, not a baseball reference).

8 Artists

Van Gogh

At the Getty Museum, L.A.

Church in Auvers that he memorialized in one of final paintings

Up the stairs to the room where he died, Auvers.

With iconic chair

Up the hill, next to grave of brother Theo.

Monet

Paris.

Giverny, his house and garden, in the rain and in Impressionist style

Garden path

The famous pond and bridge

Matisse

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

DaVinci

The Louvre, Paris.

Hopper

His boyhood bedroom with easel, Nyack, N.Y. (my own home)

Hiroshige

My homage, Tokyo temple.

Picasso

Picasso Museum, Paris

Pollock

Museum of Modern Art, New York City