Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches, and prints. His work included self portraits landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.