Labels:bulletin board | door | earth | fence | person | reckoner | road | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Liacs /incen van Gogh: Painting f lilac bushes in bloom (purple blossoms and scattered irises) Lilacs WAS one of eleven canvases that Vincent sent to Theo in July 1889 He called ita completed picture, unlike Irises, which he considered preliminary study. The lilac bushes depicted ir the painting grew in the southerr part of the asylum garden front of the men quarters This was the only area Van Gogh was allowed to paint during his irsi rnontt southerm