{"id":464110,"date":"2026-06-06T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:47:18","slug":"two-van-gogh-sunflower-paintings-will-be-displayed-together-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464110\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Van Gogh sunflower paintings will be displayed together at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Museum of Art will bring two of Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s famous sunflower paintings together for a special exhibition running June 6 through Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Van Gogh&#8217;s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow&#8221; pairs the museum&#8217;s own sunflower painting with a version on loan from the National Gallery in London. The works will be displayed side by side in the Colket Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Museum visitors can also access an audio guide that explains how the two paintings compare and why sunflowers became such an important subject for Van Gogh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will also be accompanied by a book featuring essays and illustrations that explore Van Gogh&#8217;s ambitions, his relationship with fellow artist Paul Gauguin and the story behind the sunflower paintings.<\/p>\n<p><a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/exhibitions\/van-gogh-sunflowers\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Van Gogh&#8217;s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Runs June 6 &#8211; Oct. 11<br \/>Philadelphia Museum of Art<br \/>2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.<br \/>Philadelphia, PA 19130<br \/>Free with museum admission<\/p>\n<p>This content was generated by PhillyVoice Media Events, not by the newsroom staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Museum of Art will bring two of Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s famous sunflower paintings together for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1228,442,498,499,500,501,156,83569,111,139,69,53510,45218],"class_list":["post-464110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibit","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-philadelphia-museum-of-art","tag-van-gogh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}