Cart with Black Ox
Cart with Black Ox, or The Ox-Cart, is an oil painting created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh. It has been cited as one of his important early works.[1][2] Created in the village of Nuenen before Van Gogh went to the South of France, the painting has a dark palette[1] and has been described as "disquieting"; the ox and cart are both decrepit.[3]
Cart with Black Ox was owned by a family who had bought it in 1950. It was donated in 2007 to the Portland Art Museum,[1] and as of 2010[update] is the most valuable gift yet made to the museum.[1][2] 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."[1]
In 2010 the painting was analyzed by digital X-ray and CT scanning to look for information on the artist's working methods and to add to the database at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. A painted-out flying bird was discovered.[2] A related painting made the same year, Cart with Red and White Ox, is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.
References
- ^ a b c d e Susan Stamberg, "Gift Brings Van Gogh's 'Ox-Cart' to Oregon Museum", Morning Edition, National Public Radio, December 3, 2007.
- ^ a b c Joe Rojas-Burke, "OHSU techs look beneath a masterpiece's surface to get a clearer picture of van Gogh", The Oregonian, December 13, 2010, updated March 9, 2012.
- ^ D. K. Row, "The Portland Art Museum scores a painting by Vincent van Gogh", blogs, The Oregonian, October 15, 2007.
External links
Media related to Cart with Black Ox at Wikimedia Commons
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