Miners' Wives Carrying Sacks of Coal

         1882 Vincent van Gogh | Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo | art: painting

Vincent van Gogh lived near the Borinage coal regions in southern Belgium prior to becoming a painter. In his last letter from there to his brother Theo (Sep 24, 1880), he wrote “Wait, perhaps someday you will see that I too am an artist. I don’t know what I can do, but I hope I shall be able to make some drawings with something human in them...”