Labels:bulletin board | earth | hakham | monitor | person | poster | reckoner | road | sky | skyscraper | stairway | windowpane OCR: glory -again canfrming the easterly direction of his view Van Gagh's written comments suggest more than perfunctory inter- est in celestial phenomena. His desire ta depict accurately such observations is clear from letter to his sister in September 1888 where he states that close attention to the night sky reveals "that certain stars are citron- -yellow others have a pink glow r a green, blue and forget -me-nat brilliance And without my expatiating ua this theme it will be clear that putting little white dats on blue -black surface is nat enough. This empirical attitude is supported q his ather paintings of night skies The same month he wrate to his sister he painted two major noctumal studies soap-ra-na Cafe Terrace Night and Starry Nig}t over the Rhone River (Figs. 15 and 16). The first ...