Zine for Book: Jo van Gogh-Bonger - The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous

Update: I've finished reading the book now as well. It was a lengthy and interesting read. There were times when I felt like a ping pong ball due to section topics where events included those that were in earlier, and sometimes unrelated, sections. It made envisioning the timeline challenging. The bibliography is excellent and takes more than 100 pages of the book. That said, I learned a lot! It makes my recent visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam all the richer knowing more of the family's background and understanding just how vital a force Jo van Gogh-Bonger was in creating the level of appreciation for Vincent's work that is renown today -- across the globe.

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The zine is done, but not the book. I'm halfway through it and expect to have many more notes. So I've started writing on the back of this single sheet of paper used to create the zine. It's already a treasure trove of key points about her life through the point of Vincent's and Theo's deaths. (She and Theo were married only 21 months. The last 3 months of Theo's life, he had to be hospitalized/institutionalized.)

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