# The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

- Created: 1889
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Where to see it: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, United States — https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/moma/

The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889 at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. It depicts a swirling night sky over a village, dominated by a large cypress tree and a crescent moon. The painting is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, where it has been since 1941. It is among the most recognised and reproduced images in Western art history.

Updated 2026-07-18. Source: https://worldmuseumguide.org/artworks/the-starry-night/ — World Museum Guide.