# Haystacks by Claude Monet

- Created: 1890–1891
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Where to see it: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States — https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/art-institute-of-chicago/

Haystacks (or Stacks of Wheat) is a series of twenty-five oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet, created between 1890 and 1891. Each depicts the same haystacks in a field near his home at Giverny, Normandy, under different light conditions, times of day, and seasons. The series is the first of Monet's major serial paintings and is considered the founding moment of painting as a meditation on time and perception. Multiple versions are in major collections; the Art Institute of Chicago holds six.

Updated 2026-07-18. Source: https://worldmuseumguide.org/artworks/haystacks/ — World Museum Guide.