Van Gogh's Wheat Fields
Wheat fields run through Van Gogh's last three years, from the harvest at Arles to the field seen from his window at Saint-Rémy and the wide plains of Auvers.
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About the series
Vincent van Gogh painted dozens of wheat fields. For him the crop stood for the cycle of life, from sowing to harvest. In Arles in June 1888 he painted the harvest on the plain of La Crau in a burst of work, with yellow fields under hot blue skies.
At the asylum in Saint-Rémy in 1889 he painted, again and again, the walled wheat field he could see from his window, through rain, sun and snow. Wheat Field with Cypresses dates from the same year; versions hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London. In Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890 he painted a group of long, wide canvases of the fields, including Wheatfield with Crows, now in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The Auvers canvases are twice as wide as they are tall and suit a long wall. The Arles and Saint-Rémy fields are more conventional in shape and pair easily.
