Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day)

Claude Monet · 1890–91 · Oil on canvas

Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day) by Claude Monet

Haystacks is the common English title for a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The principal subject of each painting in the series is stacks of harvested wheat. The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series which Monet began near the end of the summer of 1890 and continued through the following spring, though Monet also produced five earlier paintings using this same stack subject. A precursor to the series is the 1884 Haystack Near Giverny.

Image courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.