They may not be quite as famous as his sunflowers or self-portraits, but Vincent van Gogh’s olive-tree paintings still represent an important entry in his sprawling oeuvre of more than 2,000 works.

While many art buffs travel at length to see Vincent van Gogh’s paintings up close, one grasshopper got a front row seat — for over a century. This week it was revealed by Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --Officials at a Missouri museum said they looked at a 128-year-old van Gogh painting and made an unusual discovery -- a grasshopper embedded in the paint. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Olive Trees” (1889) (all images courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) There’s a grasshopper in the van Gogh. The artist didn’t intend to embed the critter in his canvas when he ...

"The Olive Trees," on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is a companion piece to the world-famous "The Starry Night," painted at the same time. Robert Gerhardt / The Museum of Modern Art, ...

If you’re craving some real, actual Van Gogh paintings, head over to the Dallas Museum of Art. Van Gogh and the Olive Groves is the first exhibition examining Van Gogh’s olive grove series, painted ...

Cateforis, David, ed., "The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art: a history and guide to the collection," St. Joseph, MO: The Museum, 2002, pg. 94. siris_ari_359053 ...