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Vincent van Gogh - Landscape with Wheelbarrow 1883

From The Cleveland Museum of Art:
In September 1883 Van Gogh left the bustling Dutch city of The Hague in search of open countryside in which to paint. He moved to Drenthe, a village in northeastern Netherlands that was virtually untouched by the Industrial Revolution. He described the barren terrain as supremely beautiful and serene: "What tranquility, what expanse, what calmness in this nature." With a limited palette of steely greens and cool blues, Van Gogh masterfully portrayed one of the region’s expanses of heath-"a vast plane vanishing into infinity"-illuminated by the lilac hues of the evening sky.