AMSTERDAM — The ominous imagery of Vincent van Gogh’s “Wheatfield with Crows” (1890) practically paints the image of the Dutch artist’s final days on earth. Blackbirds haunt the darkening sky above ...

Wheatfield with Crows has traditionally been regarded as Van Gogh’s last painting, with ominous birds swooping beneath a stormy sky. But although dating from July 1890, the month of the artist’s death ...

An artist’s last canvas can hold a mythic place in his oeuvre. Vincent van Gogh’s “Wheatfield With Crows,” painted just days before he died by his own hand on July 29, 1890, and enshrined in the Van ...