Starry Night (Munch)
Appearance
Starry Night | |
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File:Munch, Edvard - Starry Night - Google Art Project.jpg | |
Artist | Edvard Munch |
Year | 1893 |
Type | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 135.6 cm × 140.0 cm (53.4 in × 55.1 in) |
Location | The 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]