Wheat Field with Cypresses
1889
Vincent van Gogh
Regarded by Van Gogh as one of his "best" summer landscapes, this work is his initial study from nature of a composition he later repeated in studio variants. Painted in Saint-Rémy, it features exuberant, thick impasto with vigorous brushstrokes that vary by texture—from curving strokes in the white clouds to flickering marks for the towering cypresses.