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Herrick, Roxanna, and Bette-Lee Fox. "Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh." Library Journal 116, no. 10:208. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed November 7, 2010). In this article it talks about Van Gogh's failure as an artist while he was alive. Van Gogh produced over 1800 pieces of work, and only sold one painting while he was alive. Van Gogh tried to find himself through his artwork. His life was very bleak and depressing. In the end Van Gogh ended up committing suicide, which was not found to be too surprising.

Riley II, Charles A. "Brush with Destiny Vincent van Gogh." WE Magazine 3.1 (1999): 108. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article is able to pay tribute to painter Vincent Van Gogh's life. It explains his death and how it happened. The article also covers his paintings and how he rose to fame. One of his most famous exhibitions titled `Van Goghs'; Contemplation on Van Gogh's disability; Family and career background, was a great spring board. Overall Van Gogh's life was very interesting and this article provides a lot of information on all of it.