Before Vincent van Gogh transformed sunflowers into one of the rock stars of the flower world, the bright yellow flowers had been regarded as ordinary, even plebeian. But to Van Gogh they were every ...
“How beautiful yellow is!” Vincent van Gogh wrote in an 1888 letter to brother Theo van Gogh that began “Sunshine, a light which, for want of a better word I can only call yellow—pale sulfur yellow, ...