'Starry Night'—A Bethesda Original

New York City's Museum of Modern Art may have Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, but Bethesda's got the David van Go-berg original.

And, van Go-berg's Starry Night is a lot bigger, and may be seen from the street, free-of-charge.

The 146-inch-by-96-inch mural is affixed to the side of Union Hardware (7800 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda)—see it around the corner on Norfolk Avenue. Union Hardware co-owner David Goldberg—aka van Go-berg—created the mural out of left-over hardware stock (more than 1,250 door knobs, levers and backplates from Germany, Italy and the U.S.), according to the description at the side of the mural.

Goldberg describes his creation as "Post-Door Hardwareism," in homage to van Gogh's Post-Impressionism.

Read more about Goldberg and the 99-year-old Union Hardware—which Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot visited on Thursday morning to show his support of the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013—on Patch.