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Starry Night (Munch)

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Starry Night
File:Munch, Edvard - Starry Night - Google Art Project.jpg
ArtistEdvard Munch
Year1893
TypeOil on canvas
Dimensions135.6 cm × 140.0 cm (53.4 in × 55.1 in)
LocationThe J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch in 1893. This night landscape represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo in Norway, where Edvard Munch spent his summers from the 1880s onward. [1]