Art Wall"s "Mulberry Tree" by Vincent van Gogh 14x18 Gallery Wrapped Canvas. Van Gogh painted The Mulberry Tree in October of 1889 less than a year before he would die. Like most of his art, it was done during a period of highs and lows painted during a time of great self-awareness and yet surrounded by chaos. In Van Gogh"s Mulberry Tree we see a tree growing out of a rocky terrain. In early October 1889, he sent a few paintings, he called them studies, to his brother. In all the words describing this mulberry tree and the time he painted it he seems happy. In fact he writes "I"ll tell you that we"re having some superb autumn days, and that I"m taking advantage of them". In December he sends a few paintings to his brother in Paris, but it is the Mulberry Tree that he says is his favorite. The Mulberry Tree shows a tree from the garden of the asylum. It is centered on the canvas and is growing alone from a rocky hillside. The ground is made up of short quick brushstrokes of white and pale browns. It creates a strong contrast to the dark green and brown of the tree trunk. To the right, you see more greens, indicating trees and growth in the distance. The leaves of the tree make up the majority of the painting, orange against the complementary color of the blue sky. It is that "superb autumn" that gave Vincent the bright orange leaves to paint. The ground and sky are made up of mostly straight diagonal brushstrokes, while the tree leaves are made up of curling spirals of orange and black, sometimes done with the handle of his brush. His bright colors show his interest in Impressionism, as this painting along with a few others was included in the Société des Artistes Independents show in 1890.