Editing Van Gogh Museum (section)

=== Dedicated museum ===
Design for a Van Gogh Museum was commissioned by the Dutch government in 1963 to Dutch architect and furniture designer [[Gerrit Rietveld]].<ref name=artnews>{{citation |url=http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2011_02_13_23_02_13_the_van_gogh_museum_in_amsterdam_hosts_our_editor_the_worlds_largest_collection_of_van_goghs_artwork.html |title=The Van Gogh Museum In Amsterdam Hosts Our Editor ~ The World's Largest Collection of Van Gogh's Artwork |publisher=Art Knowledge News |access-date=23 April 2011}}</ref> Rietveld died a year later, and the building was not completed until 1973,<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.sfmoma.org/artists/4283 |title=Gerrit Thomas Rietveld |publisher=SFMOMA |access-date=23 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728024532/http://www.sfmoma.org/artists/4283 |archive-date=28 July 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> when the museum opened its doors.<ref>[http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=215&lang=en&section=sectie_museum The Organization] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820002809/http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=215&lang=en&section=sectie_museum |date=20 August 2014 }}, Van Gogh Museum. Retrieved 30 January 2012.</ref>  In 1998 and 1999, the building was renovated by the Dutch architect Martien van Goor,<ref>[http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=13886&lang=en The museum's architecture in overview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715002836/http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=13886&lang=en |date=15 July 2014 }}, Van Gogh Museum. Retrieved 6 February 2012.</ref> and an exhibition wing by the Japanese architect [[Kisho Kurokawa]] was added.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.kisho.co.jp/page.php/220 |title=New Wing of the Van Gogh Museum |publisher=Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates |year=2006 |access-date=23 April 2011 |archive-date=2 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002054450/http://www.kisho.co.jp/page.php/220 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In late 2012, the museum was closed for renovations for six months. During this period, 75 works from the collection were shown in the [[H'ART Museum]].<ref>Dan Saltzstein, "[http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/amsterdams-van-gogh-museum-to-close-for-renovations/ Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum to Close for Renovations]", ''[[New York Times]]'', 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2012.</ref>

On 9 September 2013, the museum unveiled a long-lost Van Gogh painting that spent years in a Norwegian attic believed to be by another painter. It is the first full-size canvas by him discovered since 1928. ''[[Sunset at Montmajour]]'' depicts trees, bushes and sky, painted with Van Gogh's familiar thick brush strokes. It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day 4 July 1888.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Van Gogh Painting Unveiled in Amsterdam|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/arts/design/new-van-gogh-painting-discovered-in-amsterdam.html?_r=0|newspaper=NY Times| date=9 September 2013 |access-date=9 September 2013| last1=Siegal | first1=Nina }}</ref>