Wheat Field
Vincent van Gogh
July 1888
Medium
Reed pen and logwood ink over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (24.1 x 31.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Max J.H. Rossbach, 1964
Accession Number
64.125.3
Tags
Landscapes
About the Artist
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) stands as one of the most influential figures in Western art history, despite a career spanning merely a decade. Born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, to a Protestant pastor's family, van Gogh's path to artistic greatness was anything but conventional. His early adulthood saw him working as an art dealer for Goupil & Cie, a language teacher, and a fervent missiona...