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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Wheat Fields With Reaper, Auvers, 1890, Dutch. Oil on canvas. 73.6 x 91.4 cm. Courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio (http://www.toledomuseum.org); purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment; gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.

In his last letter to his mother and his sister Wil, written from Auvers-sur-Oise just days before his death, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) described what he was working on: "I myself am quite absorbed," he wrote, "in the immense plain with wheat fields against the hills, boundless as a sea, delicate yellow, delicate soft green, the delicate violet of a dug-up and weeded piece of soil, checkered at regular intervals with the green of flowering potato plants, everything under a sky of delicate blue, white pink, violet tones." Around the same time he also wrote to his brother Theo of "two big canvases" he had just finished, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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