Plowman in a Field ☷ Van Gogh ☲ Art Print woodblock It is a surreal portrait

It is a surreal portrait of Yadwigha

A waxing moon high above counterbalances the dead of winter with the promise of a new beginning

and waning moon in the upper right

Based on an earlier lithograph from 1882

symbol of the American West

Plowman in a Field ☷ Van Gogh ☲ Art Print woodblock It is a surreal portraitPlowman in a Field (1889) by Vincent van Gogh depicts a plowman tilling a wheat field surrounded by a low stone wall, poplar trees, and an old farm house in the distance. It is one of a series of paintings of the view from his window at the asylum in Saint Rmy. His room faced east, and this version captures the morning sun rising in the sky.