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"The Harvest," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Van Gogh needs no introduction. But this lovely landscape shows the harvest in full swing. I love the patchwork of the land, the horses and carts that you can see, the haystack, the little buildings here and there, and the rising mountains in the distance. This is rural life, what Vincent sought to portray in his works.

He was quite proud of this painting, and regarded it as one of his best. I agree.

From the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

"Wheatfield with a Reaper," Vincent van Gogh, September 1889.

Van Gogh needs no introduction.

This is a great image for this time of year, with the reapers bringing in the harvest. The wheatfield is convoluted in the typical van Gogh way, as if representing how tall grass moves and sways in the wind. Van Gogh himself thought of this as an image with reminders of death everywhere....but still, suffused everywhere with gold and without a sad note anywhere.

From the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.