''Cart with Black Ox'', or ''The Ox-Cart'', is an oil painting created in 1884 by

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. It has been cited as one of his important early works. Susan Stamberg
"Gift Brings Van Gogh's 'Ox-Cart' to Oregon Museum"
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, 3 December 2007.Joe Rojas-Burke
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''The Oregonian'', 13 December 2010, updated 9 March 2012.

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Created in the village of

Nuenen Nuenen () is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten in the Netherlands. From 1883 to 1885, Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in Nuenen. In 1944, the town was a battle scene during Operation Market Garden. The local dialect i ...

before Van Gogh went to the South of France, the painting has a dark palette and has been described as "disquieting"; the ox and cart are both decrepit.D. K. Row
"The Portland Art Museum scores a painting by Vincent van Gogh"
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'', 15 October 2007. ''Cart with Black Ox'' was owned by a family who had bought it in 1950. It was donated in 2007 to the

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, and is the most valuable gift yet made to the museum. Curator Bruce Guenther argued, "The way the wheel becomes a definition lifted off the surface of the painting with the brush is Van Gogh establishing his vocabulary as a painter. He becomes Van Gogh here." In 2010, the painting was analyzed by

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and CT scanning to look for information on the artist's working methods and to add to the database at the

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. A painted-out flying bird was discovered. A related painting made the same year, '' Cart with Red and White Ox'', is in the

Kröller-Müller Museum The Kröller-Müller Museum () is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of ...

Otterlo Otterlo is a village in the municipality of Ede of province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, in or near the Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe. The Kröller-Müller Museum, named after Helene Kröller-Müller, is situated nearby and has the world's ...

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* {{ACArt 1884 paintings Cattle in art Collection of the Portland Art Museum Paintings by Vincent van Gogh Paintings in Portland, Oregon

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