Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard.ART MUSEUM There's no end to van Gogh exhibitions, but each one seems to reveal a new aspect of his brief genius. Often viewed as a loner, van Gogh in fact loved to talk shop. During the months he spent in Paris before touching down in Arles Arles (ärl), city (1990 pop. 52,543), Bouches-du-Rhône dept., S central France, in Provence Provence (prôväNs`), region and former province, SE France. It now encompasses Var, Vaucluse, and Bouches-du-Rhône depts. and (in part) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes depts. Nice, Marseilles, Toulon, Avignon, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence (the historic capital) are the chief cities., on the Rhône River delta. Arles is an important railroad, shipping, agriculture, and industrial center with varied manufactures. It was a flourishing Roman town (Arelas) and the metropolis of Gaul in the late Roman Empire., he met nearly all the innovative artists of his period, the petit boulevard painters (as opposed to Monet or Renoir, already masters of the grand boulevard). Saint Louis Saint Louis (l  `ĭs), city (1990 pop. 396,685), independent and in no county, E Mo., on the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Missouri; inc. as a city 1822. St. Louis has long been a major industrial and transportation hub.'s loan show explores van Gogh's work alongside contemporaries Emile Bernard, Paul Signac, and Louis Anquetin and examines his more famous, fullbodied interaction with Gauguin in Provence. Feb. 17-May 13; Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, June 8-Sept. 2.
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