The Wheat Field (Constable) Explained

The Wheat Field
Artist:John Constable
Year:1816
Type:Oil on canvas, landscape
Height Metric:54.6
Width Metric:78.1
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Clark Art Institute
City:Massachusetts

The Wheat Field is an 1816 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable.[1] [2] It depicts a scene in his native Suffolk. The view across a wheat field depicts a cluster of farm workers who are who are seen harvesting the crop. Today it is in the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts having been gifted to the collection in 2007.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Bailey p.85
  2. Gray and Gage p.132
  3. https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/The-Wheat-Field-(1)