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Compare the smaller stack with the larger one, especially where their warm edges meet the blue and violet shadows.
Monet worked on several wheat-stack canvases at once outdoors, then adjusted them in his studio. In 1891, he exhibited fifteen together in Paris, where viewers could compare the same subject across changing light and seasons.
Oil on canvas · 60 × 100.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1890–91
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 100.5 cm (23 5/8 × 39 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Arthur M. Wood, Sr. in memory of Pauline Palmer Wood
- 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.