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Corn Fields

1900

Félix Vallotton

(Swiss French, 1865–1925)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
Unframed: 26.2 x 46.2 cm (10 5/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.115
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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In 1892, Vallotton joined a circle of French artists known as The Nabis (Prophets) who emphasized decoration, abstraction, and discrete, intimate emotion in their paintings.

Description

With the change of the century, Vallotton shifted his focus from printmaking to oil painting. Before 1900, the artist concentrated on precisely reproducing the world around him, but as seen in this painting, Vallotton’s work shows hints of ambiguity. The greenery blends together, and the distant horizon is described in simple curves of hills or clouds that fade into the sky.
This horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a layered landscape with flat planes of color. A vibrant green field occupies the lower half. Above it, rolling hills are punctuated by clusters of rounded dark green trees and horizontal bands of tan. A thin, pale path curves through the right middle ground. The upper third features a blue-gray sky streaked with horizontal strokes of tan and blue. A signature appears in the bottom right corner.

Corn Fields

1900

Félix Vallotton

(Swiss French, 1865–1925)
France, 19th century

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