During his sojourn in The Hague van Gogh had tried to represent a modern city as it changed and expanded. His attention was focused on the uneven edges where town and country met, often awkwardly: straggling housing developments, iron-rolling mills in meadows beside windmills, new streets, as yet unbuilt, marked out by lamp-posts.

He had been experimenting with oil during his stay in The Hague, whose modern urban life he had tried to depict, but not to his satisfaction. In September 1883 he moved out of the city to the northern province of Drenthe, where he painted this study of moss-covered thatched farm buildings.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	Still-Life with Yellow Straw Hat November-December 1881, Etten Oil on canvas, 37 x 54 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	1347*900 True Color 170 Kb
	Man Digging August 1882, The Hague Oil on paper on panel, 30 x 29 cm Private collection	874*903 True Color 109 Kb
	Edge of a Wood August 1882, The Hague Oil on canvas, 35 x 49 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo	1200*800 True Color 123 Kb
	Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather August 1882, The Hague Oil on canvas on cardboard, 35 x 51 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam	1155*800 True Color 177 Kb
	Bulb Fields April 1883, The Hague Oil on canvas on panel, 48 x 65 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington	1100*800 True Color 138 Kb
	Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight August 1883, The Hague Oil on canvas on panel, 33 x 50 cm Centraal Museum, Utrecht	1239*800 True Color 119 Kb
	Farmhouses among Trees September 1883, The Hague Oil on canvas on panel, 29 x 40 cm Private collection	1200*827 True Color 157 Kb
	Farmhouses September 1883, Drenthe Oil on canvas on pasteboard, 36 x 56 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	1500*922 True Color 144 Kb
	Two Peasant Women in the Peat Field October 1883, Drenthe Oil on canvas, 28 x 37 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	1084*800 True Color 114 Kb