Portland Museum scores big with its very own van Gogh painting.

Created during Vincent van Gogh’s super emo phase in Nuenen, a small town in the Netherlands. Nuenen has since turned into Vincent van Gogh tourist central based on the two years he was there.

Poor ol’ Betsy looks like she works way too hard and is not fed often enough. In fact, that cart manages to look underfed and overworked as well.

The hazy background in the painting fits in really well with the standard rainy weather of Portland.

Donated by longtime Oregonians Fred and Frances Sohn. Mr. Sohn hails from Germany and survived the Holocaust before settling with his wife in Roseburg in 1949 and starting a thriving lumber company. The family inherited the painting from Mrs. Sohn’s parents and displayed it in their dining room.

When the Sohns initially called the museum to donate the painting the museum wasn’t very excited. They must’ve thought, “Another whack job with a Wal-Mart knockoff!” Luckily one of the sons let slip that it was a van Gogh and the curators were quick to roll out the red carpet.