#0379 "Barnyard Sunflowers"

This is a group of nine sunflowers in front of the northeast window of the Watershed Farm barn in early August, 1995. The flowers were all focused on the morning sun to the southeast as is their nature. We planted theses towering sunflowers for the birds and the bees. I enjoy painting flowers.

The sunflower had a special significance for Van Gogh. Vincent wrote that they communicate 'gratitude'. Vincent painted several sunflower paintings to welcome his artist friend Paul Gaugin to Arles. He hung the first two in the room of his friend in the Yellow House.

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