Landscape with Wheelbarrow
1883
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Drawings
Landscape with Wheelbarrow, 1883. Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890). Watercolor and opaque watercolor with black chalk on cream paper; sheet: 24.9 x 35.7 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.); framed: 39.8 x 52.4 x 2.6 cm (15 11/16 x 20 5/8 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.30 In September 1883 Van Gogh left the bustling Dutch city of The Hague in search of open countryside in which to paint. He moved to Drenthe, a village in northeastern Netherlands that was virtually untouched by the Industrial Revolution. He described the barren terrain as supremely beautiful and serene: "What tranquility, what expanse, what calmness in this nature." With a limited palette of steely greens and cool blues, Van Gogh masterfully portrayed one of the region’s expanses of heath—"a vast plane vanishing into infinity"—illuminated by the lilac hues of the evening sky. Vincent van Gogh made this watercolor just over a year after beginning to work professionally as an artist.
- Maker/Artist
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor and opaque watercolor with black chalk on cream paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.9 x 35.7 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.); Framed: 39.8 x 52.4 x 2.6 cm (15 11/16 x 20 5/8 x 1 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1958.30
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Exhibitions
- Brush Drawings, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Van Gogh: Fields. The Poppy Field and the Artist's Debate, Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Van Gogh in America
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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