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35 Unusual Facts About the Infamous Painter Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night
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12. One Of His Paintings Showed The Field Where He Committed Suicide

Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent van Gogh from 1890. Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain.

One of the most shocking paintings from Vincent Van Gogh is the one called Wheatfield With Crows. This is a painting of a wheat field which has crows flying above the field. Many people who know of Van Gogh’s death, feel it is the same field that he went to on July 27, 1890, with the plan to end his life. While no one is sure if this is the last work Van Gogh painted, we do know that it was one of his last and shares a haunting image to the same field.

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