The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Landscape with Wheelbarrow

Landscape with Wheelbarrow

1883
(Dutch, 1853–1890)
Sheet: 24.9 x 35.7 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.); Framed: 39.8 x 52.4 x 2.6 cm (15 11/16 x 20 5/8 x 1 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Vincent van Gogh made this watercolor just over a year after beginning to work professionally as an artist.

Description

In September 1883 Van Gogh left the bustling Dutch city of The Hague in search of open countryside in which to paint. He moved to Drenthe, a village in northeastern Netherlands that was virtually untouched by the Industrial Revolution. He described the barren terrain as supremely beautiful and serene: "What tranquility, what expanse, what calmness in this nature." With a limited palette of steely greens and cool blues, Van Gogh masterfully portrayed one of the region’s expanses of heath—"a vast plane vanishing into infinity"—illuminated by the lilac hues of the evening sky.
  • Dr. Frans Kantorowicz, Berlin
    ?-?
    (Galerie d'Art Lutz, Berlin)
    ?-?
    Erich Schall, Berlin
    ?-?
    (Galerie d'Art Artz et de Bois, La Haye)
    ?-?
    Justin K. Thannhauser, New York
    ?-1958
    Leonard C. Hanna, Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1958-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Rens, Annemiek. De schilders van Drenthe. Assen: Drents Museum, 2017. Reproduced: p. 194-195, afb. 150
    Shaw, Jill. "The Heartland Steps Up: Van Gogh in the Midwest, 1913-36." In Van Gogh in America. Jill Shaw, ed., 126-167. Detroit, Michgan: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 141-142, pl. 50, no. 7
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    Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981).
  • {{cite web|title=Landscape with Wheelbarrow|url=false|author=Vincent van Gogh|year=1883|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1958.30