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Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

Claude Monet · 1890–91

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Palette

Pewter
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Silver
25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Taupe
16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

Warm grey
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Fawn
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Putty
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1890–91
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60 × 100.5 cm (23 5/8 × 39 9/16 in.); Framed: 75.6 × 116.6 × 7.4 cm (29 3/4 × 45 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Work and rural life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 57, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Arthur M. Wood, Sr. in memory of Pauline Palmer Wood. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules