"The image of Vincent van Gogh daubing paint onto canvas to record the ecstatic visions of his untutored mind is so entrenched that perhaps no amount of contradictory evidence can dislodge it. But in an unusual exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, a different van Gogh emerges--a cultivated artist who discoursed knowledgeably about the novels of Zola and Balzac, the paintings in Paris' Louvre and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, and the color theories of artists Eugene Delacroix and Paul Signac." (Smithsonian) Details of the exhibition, which showcases "never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protege" and reveals "a thoughtful, exacting side of the artist," are related.