Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Two stacks of wheat in the light of a late-summer evening, one of six paintings from Monet's series held by the Art Institute of Chicago. Full commentary ↓
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Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) is an oil painting by Claude Monet (1890–91) in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago. It measures 60 × 100.5 cm.
In the pictureTwo stacks of wheat topped with conical roofs stand in a field of mixed light green and violet. The stack on the right is large and the one on the left small. The stacks glow red-orange, and the shadows they cast on the ground are blue-violet. Behind them, low hills, trees and a few houses lie in a band, and the sky is pale yellow. Monet's signature is at lower left.
BackgroundThis series was painted in 1890–91 in a field near his house at Giverny. Monet painted the same stacks more than twenty-five times in different seasons and at different hours, and Chicago collectors bought from the series early on, so six of them came together at the Art Institute of Chicago. This one shows a late-summer evening. Monet is said to have remarked, in effect, that his subject was not the stacks but the air and light enveloping them.
Puzzle tipFix the outlines of the two stacks first, then divide the field into the foreground (bright light green) and the background (violet hills), and the sky by the strength of its pale yellow. All the colors are soft pastel tones, so you need to zoom in and sort the pieces by the direction of the brushstrokes. It is on the hard side, so start with 24 to 48 pieces.
- Classification
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 100.5 cm
- Credit line
- The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.1103
Source: The Art Institute of Chicago ↗
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