ocr: 200 MILLW potm THE POTATO EATEES, MAT 185 NUENEN Their. skin "the color of a very dusty potato, peasants gather for an eve- ning meal in van Gogh's first major paint- ing, set in a hut near his parents" house in rural Nuenen, "1 have triei to emphasize that those people, eating their, potatoes in the lamplight, have dug the earth with those very hands they pur in the dish," he vrote. "Ir speaks of manual labor, and how they have honestly carned their food." To prepare, var Gogh spent the winter drawing peasant hands and heads, such as the one at left, in a series modeled after black-and-white ...
