A tall, dark cypress tree rises almost at the center of the composition, its narrow form standing out against a sky streaked with blue and white. The foreground is filled with dense, green wheat, painted with energetic, short brushstrokes that suggest the movement of the wind through the field. Yellow highlights scatter among the green, indicating areas where the wheat is beginning to ripen.

At the left edge and bottom of the scene, wild grasses and brambles curl upward in thick, swirling strokes, adding depth and texture to the field. In the distance, blue hills stretch across the horizon, their outlines softened by layers of paint that blend into the sky. The sky itself is painted with horizontal bands of blue, white, and pale yellow, with a few rounded clouds echoing the forms of the hills and bushes below.

Throughout the painting, the brushwork is vigorous and rhythmic, with visible, hatched strokes that create a lively surface texture. The palette is dominated by greens and yellows, punctuated by touches of blue in the sky and hills, and white in the clouds and house. A small white house with a yellow roof sits to the right of the cypress, partially obscured by dark green bushes.

The upper right corner contains a cluster of rounded trees, their foliage painted with thick, swirling strokes of green. In the lower left corner, deep blue and green shadows accentuate the dense growth of grasses and leaves. Long, thin stalks of grass and wheat rise diagonally in the foreground, some painted in dark green and others in yellow-green.

The sky is interspersed with thin, horizontal streaks of pale yellow, suggesting sunlight filtering through the clouds. Two large, circular clouds in the upper left background are outlined with curved, looping brushstrokes of cream and blue. The distant hills are layered in blue and violet, with the farthest edges softened and blurred, creating a sense of atmospheric depth. Green Wheat Field with Cypress was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889, during his time in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.