Grainstack, Sun in the Mist, 1891
Oil on canvas
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of Ruth and Bruce
Dayton, The Putnam Dana McMillan Fund, The John R.
Van Derlip Fund, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, The
Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, Alfred and Ingrid Lenz
Harrison, and Mary Joann and James R. Jundt 1993.20
From autumn of 1890 through spring 1891, Monet painted more than twenty-five canvases depicting grainstacks in the fields around his home in Giverny. He set out on foot at dawn or dusk, carrying supplies in a wheelbarrow. Briefly working on whichever canvas most closely corresponded to the light and weather conditions of the moment, Monet rendered numerous compositions simultaneously. In
Grainstack, Sun in the Mist, a small stack is surrounded by a lavender haze. The ambience, or envelope of light, is as much the artist’s subject as the stack and the field.
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