Wheat Stacks with Reaper

Vincent van Gogh

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Work Overview

Wheat Stacks with Reaper
Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1888; Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 73.6 x 93 cm
Location: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, US


Wheat Stacks with Reaper was made in June, 1888 (as indicated by the F number sequence) or[47] 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 those who worked close to nature in a letter to his sister in 1889: "aren’t we, who live on bread, to a considerable extent like wheat, at least aren't we forced to submit to growing like a plant without the power to move, by which I mean in whatever way our imagination impels us, and to being reaped when we are ripe, like the same wheat?"