The artwork, titled “Stooks and a Mill,” was created by Vincent van Gogh in 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. This piece, rendered in chalk on paper, belongs to the Realism art movement and is classified as a sketch and study. It is currently housed at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The artwork depicts a rural landscape with a dynamic composition of stooked hay in the foreground and a windmill in the distance to the left. The artist employs expressive, gestural strokes to capture the texture and movement of the scene, with birds adding a sense of life and motion to the sky. The sketch encompasses both the structured simplicity and atmospheric depth characteristic of van Gogh’s works from this period. Overall, the piece reflects van Gogh’s keen observational skills and his ability to convey the essence of the agrarian environment of his time.
