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File:Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) - Wheat Field with Crows (1890).jpg

In 1890 Vincent van Gogh wrote he had made three paintings in Auvers of large fields of wheat under troubled skies and Wheat Field with Crows, an oil on canvas, may have been one.

  • Artist: Vincent van Gogh 1890
  • Source: http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/gogh/fields/gogh.threatening-skies.jpg
  • Source description: http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/gogh/fields/
  • Other versions= Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 047.jpg higher resolution but right-cropped and with different colour balance;this version shows a wider canvas.
  • License: Public domain due to artist's death in 1890.
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