The DMA presents the first show centered around Van Gogh’s olive grove paintings DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com The Dallas Museum of Art’s current blockbuster exhibition, Van Gogh and the Olive Groves, has been 10 years in the making.
Now visitors to the DMA have through Feb. 22 to see this first-time exhibit. When Nicole Myers, the DMA’s current curator of European Art, took a trip to Amsterdam hoping to arrange a loan from the Van Gogh Museum, she learned the artist’s series of olive grove paintings from 1889 had never been exhibited together.
During her years of study of the paintings, Myers had learned that Van Gogh considered this group of 15 paintings among his finest work.