Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1890–91
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
The monumental stacks that Claude Monet depicted in his series Stacks of Wheat rose fifteen to twenty feet and stood just outside the artist’s farmhouse at Giverny. Through 1890 and 1891, he worked on this series both in the field, painting simultaneously at several easels, and in the studio, refining pictorial harmonies. In May 1891, Monet hung fifteen of these canvases next to each other in one small room in the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. An unprecedented critical and financial success, the exhibition marked a breakthrough in Monet’s career, as well as in the history of French art. In this view, and in nearly all of the autumn views in the series, the conical tops of the stacks break the horizon and push into the sky. But in most of the winter views, which constitute the core of the series, the stacks seem wrapped by bands of hill and field, as if bedded down for the season. For Monet, the stack was a resonant symbol of sustenance and survival. He followed this group with further series depicting poplars, the facade of Rouen Cathedral, and, later, his own garden at Giverny. The Art Institute has the largest group of Monet’s Stacks of Wheat in the world.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65.8 × 101 cm (27 7/8 × 39 3/4 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 15 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, July 2, 1891, for 3,200 francs.
- Durand-Ruel, New York; sold to Potter Palmer, Chicago, July 2, 1891, for $1,200 (or 6,000 francs) Durand-Ruel, New York, by Mar. 7, 1892; sold to Potter Palmer, Chicago, Mar. 7, 1892, for $1,500; sold back to Durand-Ruel, New York, by Apr. 19, 1892; sold to Sir William Van Horne, Montreal, Apr. 19, 1892, for $1,250.
- Durand-Ruel, New York, by Nov. 22, 1892; sold to Potter Palmer, Chicago, Nov. 22, 1892, for $1,200.
- Howard Young, New York, by 1932.
- Annie Swan Coburn (d. 1932), Chicago, by 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6–Oct. 9, 1932.
- Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, Artists Unappreciated in Their Day, Nov. 5–Dec. 10, 1939.
- Seattle Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Exhibition Monet and Pissarro, Nov. 21, 1944–Jan. 24, 1945, no cat. Englewood High School, Feb. 6–Mar. 6, 1945, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments, Mar. 9–May 15, 1960; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 14–Aug. 7, 1960.
- Iowa City, University of Iowa Gallery of Art, Impressionism and Its Roots, Nov. 8–Dec. 6, 1964.
- Pasadena (Calif.) Art Museum (sponsored by the Art Alliance), Serial Imagery, Sept. 17–Oct. 27, 1968; Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Nov. 17–Dec. 22, 1968; Santa Barbara (Calif.) Museum of Art, Jan. 25–Feb. 23, 1969 (Seattle only).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monet’s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, Apr. 19–July 9, 1978; Saint Louis Art Museum, Aug. 1–Oct. 8, 1978.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition, Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, Oct. 17–Dec. 14, 1986, not in, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ’90s: The Series Paintings, February 7–April 29, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, 1990; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7–December 9, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, a World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, Nov. 1–Jan. 9, 1994, not in cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
- Baltimore Museum of Art, In Monet’s Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny, Oct. 17, 2004–Jan. 9, 2005, no cat. no.; Phoenix Museum of Art, Feb. 6–May 8, 2005; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, June 4–Sept. 4, 2005.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917, June 26–Sept. 19, 2010, no cat. no..
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
