Vincent van Gogh's subjects often came from his immediate surroundings and experiences. In this drawing, the artist depicts the Saint-Rémy asylum, to which he committed himself from 1889 to 1890. His staccato brushstrokes of artificial and luminous colors draw the viewer into the asylum's elongated, arched orridor. The passageway's succession of doorways underscores containment and isolation, as well as the figure's potential departure from the enclosed space. Van Gogh's drawing serves both as a record of and a metaphor for his confinement and his troubled emotions.

Image and curatorial comments are from The Museum of Modern Art, New York at the URL: http://www.moma.org/

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