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Compare the warm stack with the cool field, and look for touches of pink and blue within the apparently white snow.
This winter scene is part of Monet’s 1890–91 group of wheat stacks near his Giverny home. He worked on multiple canvases outdoors and refined them in the studio. Keeping the farm subject recognizable while changing the surrounding light made it possible to compare one weather condition with another.
Oil on canvas · 66 × 93 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day)
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1890–91
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 66 × 93 cm (26 × 36 5/8 in.); Framed: 87.4 × 114.7 × 11.5 cm (34 3/8 × 45 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.