Paul Mellon: National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: The rarely seen 1890 painting, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, depicts a landscape in bright greens and blues from northern France when Van Gogh was living just north of Paris in Auvers-sur-Oise. The painting was given to the museum by philanthropist and art collector Paul Mellon, and it has been kept in his familys home in Upperville, Va., since 1955, according to 660 News. The painting has only been exhibited once before in the United States in a show devoted to the Mellon collection in 1966 at the National Gallery of Art. The painting spent its early years with Van Goghs brother Theo and then was traded in Germany. It was shown in a major exhibition in Cologne, Germany, in 1912 and then in Berlin. But it has mostly been out of view since the 1930s, said French paintings curator Mary Morton and WASHINGTON A Vincent Van Gogh painting that has been hidden away at a Virginia estate for decades will have a new home at the National Gallery of Art. It will go on display Friday alongside five other Van Gogh paintings. The museum now holds nine altogether. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.