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]