A wheat field in full harvest gold leans in the wind below weathered brown windbreak fences, under a sky of moving mauve-gray clouds

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The Quiet Land

The August Field

Medium Watercolor and gouache on wove paper
Paper 140 lb rough cotton
Size 13⅜ × 21 in
Painted 2025

Late August, everything the color of bread. The old windbreak fences make a dark wall across the top of the field, and the wheat below them moves like water. I painted the grain with the same strokes I use for a running tide. This is the largest of the field paintings and the fastest: the clouds were closing and the gold only lasts while the sun does.

Placeholder artwork: “Camouflaged Field in France (1918)” by John Singer Sargent, public domain via The Met.