Corn Fields
1900
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton (French, 1865–1925)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Corn Fields, 1900. Félix Vallotton (French, 1865–1925). Oil on board; unframed: 26.2 x 46.2 cm (10 5/16 x 18 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.115 With the change of the century, Vallotton shifted his focus from printmaking to oil painting. Before 1900, the artist concentrated on precisely reproducing the world around him, but as seen in this painting, Vallotton’s work shows hints of ambiguity. The greenery blends together, and the distant horizon is described in simple curves of hills or clouds that fade into the sky. In 1892, Vallotton joined a circle of French artists known as The Nabis (Prophets) who emphasized decoration, abstraction, and discrete, intimate emotion in their paintings.
- Maker/Artist
- Vallotton, Félix
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 26.2 x 46.2 cm (10 5/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed and dated lower right (twice): F. VALLOTTON. 00
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2020.115
- Credit Line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Exhibitions
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, <em>Exposition Vallotton et Vuillar</em>d. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (1903)., <em>Félix Vallotton, Paris</em>. Kunstlerhaus. Zurich, Switzerland (May 2-26, 1909)., <em>Exposition Félix Vallotton, Peintures 1886-1919</em>. Galerie Druet, Paris, France (1923)., <em>Exposition rétrospective d'oeuvres inédites de Félix Vallotton 1865-1925</em>. Galerie Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris, France (March 9-30, 1928)., <em>Felix Vallotton 1865-1925</em>. Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (November 11–December 14, 1938)., <em>Exposition anniversaire 1913-1988, Maîtres suisses et français de XIXe et XXe siécles</em>. Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland (1988).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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