Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011029Landscape with Wheelbarrow
About the Artwork
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.
Provenance
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
Exhibition history
The Vocabulary of Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975). Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000). Van Gogh: Fields. The Poppy Field and the Artist's Debate. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 21-May 18, 2003). Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). There’s Nothing like the Real Thing: Van Gogh at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-December 5, 2021). Van Gogh in America. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (October 2, 2022-January 22, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- watercolor and opaque watercolor with black chalk on cream paper
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1958.30
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