"along the left bank of the Seine and a few Giverny houses to the right. Then, he turned to his left to capture two scenes (1216-7) in which the hills are shrouded by a line of poplars. Haystacks (Monet series) Haystacks is the common English title for a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The principal subject of each painting in the series is stacks of harvested wheat (or possibly barley or oats: the original French title, Les Meules à Giverny, simply means The Stacks at Giverny). The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series (Wildenstein Index Numbers"
"Rousseau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (whose reputation improved substantially after his death), Giuseppe Amisani and a young Pablo Picasso. More modern forms in sculpture also began to dominate as in the works of Paris-native Auguste Rodin. Although Impressionism in painting began well before the ""Belle Époque"", it had initially been met with skepticism if not outright scorn by a public accustomed to the realist and representational art approved by the Academy. In 1890, Monet started his series ""Haystacks"". Impressionism, which had been considered the artistic avant-garde in the 1860s, did not gain widespread acceptance until after World War I. The academic"
"Walter Heath Williams Walter Heath Williams (birthdate unknown, exhibited 1841 to 1876) was a Victorian landscape artist known for his paintings of fields of haystacks and corn stooks. Little is known for certain about Walter Heath Williams due to widespread confusion of him with a contemporary artist named Walter Williams (1834-1906) also, who was a member of the well-known Williams family of painters. Because both men were landscape artists, living in England at about the same time, and both signed their works similarly, it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. However, Walter Heath Williams lived in the southwest"
"Landscape near Arles Landscape near Arles is an 1888 oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. It depicts a rural scene in Provence. ""Landscape near Arles"" depicts a very typical scene from that area: the farmhouse is a traditional mas, the cypress trees are common in the region, and the haystack is suitable for harvest time. Gauguin's treatment of the subject owes much to Paul Cézanne, whom Gauguin revered. His emphasis on geometric forms and the way his careful network of precisely placed brushstrokes locks the haystack and"
"Landscape near Arles Landscape near Arles is an 1888 oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. It depicts a rural scene in Provence. ""Landscape near Arles"" depicts a very typical scene from that area: the farmhouse is a traditional mas, the cypress trees are common in the region, and the haystack is suitable for harvest time. Gauguin's treatment of the subject owes much to Paul Cézanne, whom Gauguin revered. His emphasis on geometric forms and the way his careful network of precisely placed brushstrokes locks the haystack and"
"Wheat Field with Cypresses A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part of his wheat field series. All were exhibited at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental asylum at Saint-Rémy near Arles, France, where Van Gogh was voluntarily a patient from May 1889 to May 1890. The works were inspired by the view from the window at the asylum towards the Alpilles mountains. The painting depicts golden fields of ripe wheat, a dark fastigiate Provençal cypress towering like a green obelisk to the right and lighter green olive trees in the middle distance,"
"Enclosed Field with Peasant Enclosed Field with Peasant is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted in October 1889. It is currently part of the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The painting's hurried lines accentuate a vibrant, moving field. The whole painting seems to pulsate with life, even though only one human is shown. It is the most topographically accurate of four views of a wheat field at the base of the Alpilles. Van Gogh intended this piece to be a pendant with the painting ""The Reaper"". Van Gogh's iconic style and layering embrace"
"by his friend, the author Camille Lemonnier, and influenced by the French impressionists, like Claude Monet whose works he got to know during his trips to Paris in the 1890s, Claus gradually shifted from naturalistic realism to a very personal style of impressionism called 'luminism', because of the luminous palette he used. His paintings """" (1890) and ""The Ice Birds"" (1891) represent important turning points in this evolution. ""The Beet Harvest"" shows farmers harvesting sugar beets, hacking them out of the frozen field. The painting is gigantic in size and hangs at the ""Museum of Deinze and de Leiestreek"" in"
"The Hay Wain The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as ""Constable's most famous image"" and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings. Painted in oils on canvas, the work depicts as its central feature three horses pulling what in fact appears to be a wood wain or large farm cart across the river. Willy Lott's Cottage, also the subject of an eponymous painting by"
"Green Wheat Field with Cypress Green Wheat Field with Cypress (French: Champ de blé vert avec cyprès) is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh. It was completed in 1889, while van Gogh was voluntarily incarcerated at the asylum of St. Paul near Saint-Rémy in Provence. Several paintings of wheat fields with cypresses were made when van Gogh was able to leave the asylum grounds and explore the local landscape. Besides a fondness for cypresses, van Gogh had a special affinty with wheat fields; he depicted them dozens of times over the years; to Vincent they"
"on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. ""The Hay Harvest"" is on display in the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague. Legendary animation director, Hayao Miyazaki took inspiration from this painting for his short film ""Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess"". The Harvesters (painting) The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of August and September. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting. The painting is one in a series of six works, five of"
"with Stacks of Wheat"" (F771), must be a later painting. The Van Gogh Museum's ""Wheatfield with Crows"" was painted in July 1890, in the last weeks of van Gogh’s life. Many have claimed it as his last painting, while it is also possible ""Tree Roots"", or the previously mentioned ""Daubigny's Garden"", was his final painting. ""Wheat Field with Crows,"" made on a double-square canvas, depicts a dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows over a wheat field. A sense of isolation is heightened by a central path leading nowhere and by the uncertain direction of flight of the crows. The windswept"
"morbid vision."" Green Wheat Field with Cypress Green Wheat Field with Cypress (French: Champ de blé vert avec cyprès) is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh. It was completed in 1889, while van Gogh was voluntarily incarcerated at the asylum of St. Paul near Saint-Rémy in Provence. Several paintings of wheat fields with cypresses were made when van Gogh was able to leave the asylum grounds and explore the local landscape. Besides a fondness for cypresses, van Gogh had a special affinty with wheat fields; he depicted them dozens of times over the years; to"
"The Hay Harvest The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), is an oil on wood painting created by Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569), in 1565. The most important of the Lobkowiczes' Northern pictures, it was hung in the dining room of the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelink. This picture was originally part of a series of six panels, each presumed to represent two months of the year – in this case June and July. In 1594 all six panels were given by the city of Antwerp to Archduke Ernst, Governor of the Netherlands. It is believed that the whole series was selected"
"1890s, his technique increasingly evolved toward Impressionism in both oil and watercolor, even as the movement itself was giving way to Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. During his European stay, he continued to favor street and horse scenes, avoiding some of the other favorite depictions of the Impressionists, such as opera, cabaret, theater, and boating. He also painted garden and ""flower girl"" scenes, some featuring his wife, including ""Geraniums"" (1888) which he presented at the Salon exhibition in 1889. He managed to exhibit at all three Salon shows during his Paris stay but won only one Bronze Medal. Hassam became close friends"
"like an Egyptian obelisk"") and pines. This interest resulted in several of paintings, including ""Cypresses"", which was painted soon after van Gogh's arrival. The work was later shown at the 1890 meeting of the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Cypresses is a late 19th century painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a pair of cypress trees in the French countryside. The work is currently on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ""Cypresses"" was painted by Vincent van Gogh while the post impressionist was a patient"
"Tree Roots Tree Roots is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in July 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The painting is an example of the double-square canvases that he employed in his last landscapes. Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris, after he left an asylum at Saint-Rémy in May 1890. The painting is considered by some to be his last painting before his death late July 1890. Jan Hulsker considers it the most original of his double-square canvases. The viewer thinks"
"the ground and secured the canvas to the easel with rope. ""Arles: View from the Wheat Fields (Wheat Field with Sheaves and Arles in the Background),"" another painting of this series, represents the harvest. In the foreground are sheaves of harvested wheat leaning against one another. The center of the painting depicts the harvesting process. ""Wheat Stacks with Reaper"" was made in June, 1888 (as indicated by the F number sequence) or June 1890 in Auvers as noted by the Toledo Museum of Art, where it resides. Of the figure ""the reaper"" Van Gogh expressed his symbolic, spiritual view of"
"Rembrandt in 1897. It has appeared as a collection highlight in museum catalogs ever since. Winter Landscape with Skaters Winter Landscape with Skaters is a 1608 oil on oak painting by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This painting shows ice skaters of all sorts enjoying a day on a frozen river. People dressed up stand among villagers going about their daily chores. A dog chews on a dead carcass in the lower left corner. A boat sails away on a sled in the background as a group of fishermen make efforts to free a"
"pieces in the collection. Nevelson’s ""Lunar Landscape"" is a large, painted-wood construction that dates to 1959-60 (see picture gallery below). The ACMAA collection contains several examples of American Impressionism. ""Idle Hours"" (about 1894) by William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) anchors the ACMAA holdings of American Impressionist paintings. Chase's student and protégé Julian Onderdonk (1882–1922) is represented by a Texas scene, ""A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas"" (1918). ""Flags on the Waldorf"" (1916) is a signature New York work by Childe Hassam (1859–1935). Other well-known American Impressionist painters who have pieces in the collection are Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Willard Metcalf"
"Farmhouse in Provence Farmhouse in Provence also known as Entrance Gate to a Farm with Haystacks was made in 1888 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles in Provence at the height of his career. Partially due to having been inspired by painter Adolphe Monticelli, Van Gogh sought the Provence region of France to further expand his painting skill and experience. Van Gogh used several pairs of complementary colors in the ""Farmhouse in Provence"", the color contrast bringing an intensity to his work. The painting is owned by the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C.. At the time that Van"
"Cornflowers"" shows the effect of a gust of wind that ripples through the yellow stalks, seeming to ""overflow"" into the blue background. The heads of a few stalks of wheat seem to have detached themselves, diving into the blue of the hills in the background. ""Wheat Fields near Auvers,"" 1890, owned by Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna was also described by van Gogh as a landscape of the vast wheat fields after a rain. Van Gogh brings the spectator directly into ""Sheaves of Wheat"" by filling the picture plane with eight sheaves of wheat, as if seeing it from a worker's"
"perspective. The sheaves, bathed in yellow light, appear to be recently cut. For contrast, Van Gogh uses the complementary, vivid lavender for shadows and earth in the nearby field. In van Gogh's ""Wheatfields Under Thunderclouds,"" also called ""Wheat Fields Under Clouded Sky,"" landscape he depicts the loneliness of the countryside and the degree to which it was ""healthy and heartening."" The Van Gogh Museum's ""Wheatfield with Crows"" was made in July 1890, in the last weeks of Van Gogh’s life, many have claimed it was his last work. Others have claimed ""Tree Roots"" was his last painting. ""Wheatfield with Crows,"""
"1900, where Benson made some of his first Impressionist paintings, such as ""Children in the Woods"" and ""The Sisters."" The popularity of ""The Sisters"", a painting of daughters Elizabeth and Sylvia, won medals in expositions throughout the United States and in Paris, was a prelude to the successes of the next 20 years, when Benson became famous for a series of paintings of his family. After New Castle, the Bensons spent their summers on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay in Maine at Wooster Farm. Benson made Impressionist works of his family in earnest at Wooster Farm en plein air."
"Trees and Undergrowth (Van Gogh series) Trees and Undergrowth is the subject of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in Paris, Saint-Rémy and Auvers, from 1887 through 1890. Van Gogh made several paintings of undergrowth, a genre called ""sous-bois"" brought into prominence by artists of the Barbizon School and Impressionists. The works from this series successfully use shades of color and light in the forest or garden interior paintings. Van Gogh selected one of his Saint-Rémy paintings, ""Ivy"" (F609) for the Brussels Les XX exhibition in 1890. The woodland scene genre, or ""sous-bois"" in French for undergrowth, was popular with"
"Wheatfield with Crows Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It has been cited by several critics as one of his greatest works. It is commonly stated that this was van Gogh's final painting. However, art historians are uncertain as to which painting was van Gogh's last, as no clear historical records exist. The evidence of his letters suggests that ""Wheatfield with Crows"" was completed around 10 July and predates such paintings as ""Auvers Town Hall on 14 July 1890"" and ""Daubigny's Garden"". Moreover, Jan Hulsker points out that a painting of harvested wheat, ""Field"
"Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series) The Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, borne out of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide a means of offering comfort to others. The wheat field works demonstrate his progression as an artist from the drab ""Wheat Sheaves"" made in 1885 in the Netherlands to the colorful, dramatic paintings from Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise of rural France. Failing to find a vocation in ministry, Van Gogh turned to art as a means to express and communicate his deepest"
"Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Cypresses is a late 19th century painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a pair of cypress trees in the French countryside. The work is currently on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ""Cypresses"" was painted by Vincent van Gogh while the post impressionist was a patient Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy. While being held at the asylum, van Gogh was allowed to continue his painting; among other subjects, the artist was interested in painting cypresses (which van Gogh described as ""beautiful as regards lines and proportions,"
"young and green. His ""Wheatfields at Auvers with White House"" shows a more subdued palette of yellows and blues, which creates a sense of idyllic harmony. About 10 July 1890 Van Gogh wrote to Theo of ""vast fields of wheat under troubled skies"". ""Wheatfield with Crows"" shows the artist's state of mind in his final days; Hulsker describes the work as a ""doom-filled painting with threatening skies and ill-omened crows"". Its dark palette and heavy brushstrokes convey a sense of menace. After Van Gogh's first exhibitions in the late 1880s, his reputation grew steadily among artists, art critics, dealers and"
"and horses appear in illustrations to the travel memoir of John Mandeville in the fourteenth century. Orientalist paintings of the nineteenth century include ones by artists such as Carl Haag (""Danger in the Desert"", 1867) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (""Street Scene, Egypt"", 1869). The memorial on the Victoria Embankment Gardens in London commemorates the Imperial Camel Corps in sculpture. The year before, Klee had produced another camel painting in oils entitled ""Two Camels and a donkey"" (1919). ""Camel in rhythmic landscape with trees"" is considered one of a series that includes ""Rythmic Tree Landcape"". Similar landscapes, such as ""Small rhythmic landscape"""
"given by J.-B. de la Faille in ""The Works of Vincent van Gogh, His Paintings and Drawings"" a portion of which was apparently in error (i.e., Bernheim-Jeune, Reid and Lefevre, Ackermann, Molyneux.) Farmhouse in Provence Farmhouse in Provence also known as Entrance Gate to a Farm with Haystacks was made in 1888 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles in Provence at the height of his career. Partially due to having been inspired by painter Adolphe Monticelli, Van Gogh sought the Provence region of France to further expand his painting skill and experience. Van Gogh used several pairs of complementary colors"
"earth checkered at regular intervals with the green of the flowering potato plants, everything under a sky of delicate blue, white, pink, and violet. I am almost too calm, a state that is necessary to paint all that."" Four days after completing ""Wheat Fields after the Rain"" he shot himself in the Auvers wheat fields. Van Gogh died on July 29, 1890. Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series) The Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, borne out of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide"
"William Biscombe Gardner William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919) was a British painter and wood-engraver. Working in both watercolour and oils, he exhibited widely in London in the late 19th century at venues such as the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. From 1896 he lived at Thirlestane Court. He illustrated a number of books featuring the British landscape (see below), notably ""Kent"", ""Canterbury"", and ""The Peak Country"". He also drew scenes from the Welsh Elan Valley in the 1890s, before it was flooded to form the Elan Valley Reservoirs, which appeared in two books by Grant Allen (see ""illustrated Books"" below)."