Green Wheat Fields, Auvers — Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Where the Saint-Rémy wheat fields pulse and flame, this Auvers view from 1890 is expansive and lighter — the rolling greens carry less pressure, the sky is pale. Van Gogh made many landscape studies in his Auvers weeks, moving quickly through the countryside. This one catches the fields in a moment of rest. Now in the Art Institute of Chicago. A postcard that holds the open air of Van Gogh's last landscape period. From the Vincent van Gogh collection.