Sheaves of Wheat

Vincent van Gogh

July 1890

Oil on canvas

Dallas Museum of Art

Sheaves of Wheat is among Van Gogh’s very last works, painted during the final month of his life. Throughout his career, the artist tried to express the comforting feelings of eternity that he experienced in the countryside as he observed nature’s endless cycles, like that of growing and harvesting wheat. Part of a larger series of 13 canvases with an elongated rectangular format, Sheaves of Wheat was painted in the French village Auvers-sur-Oise, where he relocated to continue treatment for mental health issues. storage