Vincent van Gogh - Weaver Facing Left with Spinning Wheel 1884
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Weaver Facing Left with Spinning Wheel 1884
61x85cm oil/canvas
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
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From Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
Van Gogh’s feeling for the working poor is evident from his earliest works. In 1883-84, he executed at least twenty-eight oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors of the weavers in the district near his family’s home in the Netherlands. His interest was aroused not only by the subject, but by the somber effect of the dark wood and gray walls, contrasting with the red cloth on the loom.