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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Honorary Kansan?

Today my spouse and I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This is one of the artists most famous paintings (Sunflowers):


In case you don't know, the sunflower is the state flower of Kansas.

This is his painting of a wheat field. 


Kansas calls itself the "breadbasket of the world" because of the volume of wheat it produces.

Maybe you are familiar with this self-portrait:







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