#debby beece

Book Review: The Van Gogh Woman by Debby Beece

In the current surge of books written about the Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent Willem Van Gogh, author Debby Beece presents a somewhat unique view. She writes of the triad formed by Van Gogh himself, his brother Theo, and Johanna, Theo’s wife, seen primarily from the point of view of Johanna. Beece presents Van Gogh as not mentally ill, but as an overly-sensitive man whose moods swing…