This week’s work of art is by contemporary British artist David Hockney. It was painted in August of 2005 and is known as Wheat Field Near Fridaythorpe. It was part of a series of paintings Hockney did entitled “A Year in Yorkshire.”
For more about David Hockney, Wikipedia is a good place to start, and there’s a biography at DavidHockney.com. There are also tons of links at the ArtCyclopedia, the Web Museum and the Art Archive.