The Starry Night, often called simply Starry Night, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.^[1][2] It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941,^[3] acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Described as a “touchstone of modern art”, The Starry Night has been regarded as one of the most recognizable paintings in the Western canon.^[4][5][6]