A Summer Reading List à la Vincent van Gogh

The house in Cuesmes, in the Borinage, which van Gogh called home during the time he decided he wanted to become an artist. Image courtesy WikiMedia.

Irving Stone curated and edited down the copious letters that Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, turning the most meaningful ones into a volume titled Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh. In these outpourings to his sibling, he speaks of books he is reading and art he is studying, even while he is being primed for the minis...