Evening Landscape with Rising Moon (Landscape with Wheat Sheaves and Rising Moon)

Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview

Landscape with Wheat Sheaves and Rising Moon
Artist Vincent van Gogh
Year early June, 1889
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72.0 cm × 92.0 cm (28.3 in × 36.2 in)
Location Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands


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.