Corn Fields (1900): Art, History and Details
Corn Fields at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1900, oil on board. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Corn Fields (1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: Corn Fields
- Date: 1900
- Creator attribution: Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Type: Painting
- Technique: oil on board
- Dimensions: Unframed: 26.2 x 46.2 cm (10 5/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession number: 2020.115
A detail from the museum
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.
Collection credit
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
Further reading listed by the museum
- Felix Vallotton, Paris V. Serie 1909, 2. Mai bis 28. Mai. [Zürich]: [Künstlerhaus Zürich], 1909. Published as: Les Bles
- Exposition Rétrospective d'Oeuvres Inédites de Félix Vallotton, 1865-1925: 50 Petits Tableaux de 1889-à 1925, Chez Jacques Rodriques-Henriques ... Paris ... du vendredi 9 au vendredi 30 mars 1928. [Paris]: La Galerie, 1928. Published as: Les Prairies, Romanel, près Lausanne
- Félix Vallotton, 1865 - 1925. Zürich: Kunsthaus, 1938. Published as: Bles a Romanel
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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