1883 · F22 · JH421
Farm with Stacks of Peat
Farm with Stacks of Peat, 1883. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Back of Beyond.
Farm with Stacks of Peat meaning and analysis
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Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Early Drawing Period.
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The thatched farmhouse faces the viewer, a mound of peat on either side, a small hatted figure in the doorway. The stacks of peat in the title are both the everyday material of this stretch and the economy of the place: barges, he writes, are always passing with peat or bulrushes.