Rain is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh, part of
The Wheat Field, a series that he executed in 1889 while a voluntary patient in the
Saint-Paul asylum near
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Through his cell window on the upper floor, he could see an enclosed wheat field, and he made about a dozen paintings of it over the changing seasons. In this work, he represented falling rain with diagonal lines of paint. The style is reminiscent of
Japanese prints, but the effect is stylistically personal to Van Gogh. Seen through his rain-splattered window, he shows its bleak aspect in November, with grey clouds overhead and the wheat already harvested. The painting is now in the collection of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh