EPISODE · Jan 12, 2016 · 1 MIN
18. Vincent van Gogh, "Wheat Fields after the Rain," 1890
from Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh · host Taft Museum of Art
After moving to Auvers in 1890, Van Gogh was drawn to the same fields that Daubigny had painted. He wrote to his brother, Theo van Gogh: “I am completely absorbed in that immense plain covered with fields of wheat against the hills, boundless as the sea in delicate colors of yellow and green, the pale violet of the plowed and weeded earth checkered at regular intervals with the green of the flowering potato plants, everything under a sky of delicate blue, white, pink and violet.”
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After moving to Auvers in 1890, Van Gogh was drawn to the same fields that Daubigny had painted. He wrote to his brother, Theo van Gogh: “I am completely absorbed in that immense plain covered with fields of wheat against the hills, boundless as the sea in delicate colors of yellow and green, the pale violet of the plowed and weeded earth checkered at regular intervals with the green of the flowering potato plants, everything under a sky of delicate blue, white, pink and violet.”
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18. Vincent van Gogh, "Wheat Fields after the Rain," 1890
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