Wheat Field with Cypresses

Description

Wheat Field with Cypresses turns a summer landscape into a rush of motion. Golden wheat, wind-shaped clouds and dark cypress trees meet beneath the bright sky of southern France, with Vincent van Gogh’s textured brushwork giving the scene its remarkable energy.

Van Gogh painted this view from nature near Saint-Rémy in 1889 and considered it among his strongest summer landscapes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds this original horizontal study; he went on to create two related studio paintings later that year. In Wheat Field with Cypresses, the contrast between the upright trees and sweeping fields makes the familiar countryside feel expansive and alive.