Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect)

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Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), 1890–91. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 65.3 × 100.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism

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Museum title: Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Date: 1890–91
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 65.3 × 100.4 cm (25 11/16 × 39 1/2 in.); Framed: 84.2 × 119.7 × 8.9 cm (33 1/8 × 47 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit line: Potter Palmer Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1840–1926

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.