"The Visitor"
Type:Painting
Year:c1960
Size:19.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Casein
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Modernist portrait by Heaney, excellent condition.
Charles Heaney ART FOR SALE
1897 Ocanto Falls, Wisconsin - 1981 Portland, Oregon. Known for: Abstract farm scenes, villages, figure.
An Oregon regionalist painter who combined abstraction and romanticism, Charles Heaney was a follower of Harry Wentz, the philosopher behind the Oregon regionalist movement and a professor at the... Read full biography
An Oregon regionalist painter who combined abstraction and romanticism, Charles Heaney was a follower of Harry Wentz, the philosopher behind the Oregon regionalist movement and a professor at the Portland Art Museum School. Heaney is associated with paintings of Northwest landscape, urban... Read full biography
An Oregon regionalist painter who combined abstraction and romanticism, Charles Heaney was a follower of Harry Wentz, the philosopher behind the Oregon regionalist movement and a professor at the Portland Art Museum School. Heaney is associated with paintings of Northwest landscape, urban architecture in ruins with his "demolition series," and of unidentified towns in inland Oregon. Characteristic of his expression are empty roads, isolated trees and threatening skies. Born in Oconto Falls,... Read full biography
An Oregon regionalist painter who combined abstraction and romanticism, Charles Heaney was a follower of Harry Wentz, the philosopher behind the Oregon regionalist movement and a professor at the Portland Art Museum School. Heaney is associated with paintings of Northwest landscape, urban architecture in ruins with his "demolition series," and of unidentified towns in inland Oregon. Characteristic of his expression are empty roads, isolated trees and threatening skies. Born in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, Charles Heaney was from a family of Irish and German immigrants. In 1913, he quit school to support his widowed mother and found work as a jeweler's apprentice doing engravings, which proved to be his trade for much of his life. In the 1930s,... Read full biography
An Oregon regionalist painter who combined abstraction and romanticism, Charles Heaney was a follower of Harry Wentz, the philosopher behind the Oregon regionalist movement and a professor at the Portland Art Museum School. Heaney is associated with paintings of Northwest landscape, urban architecture in ruins with his "demolition series," and of unidentified towns in inland Oregon. Characteristic of his expression are empty roads, isolated trees and threatening skies. Born in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, Charles Heaney was from a family of Irish and German immigrants. In 1913, he quit school to support his widowed mother and found work as a jeweler's apprentice doing engravings, which proved to be his trade for much of his life. In the 1930s, he adopted intaglio, having taken classes in this medium at the Portland School. In 1917, he became a part-time student at the Portland... Read full biography
Charles Heaney - Art for Sale (5 available)
Portrait of a Woman
Type:Painting
Year:c1955
Size:20.75" x 15.00"
Medium:Casein
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Colorful and large portrait by Heaney, excellent condition.
Oregon Clear Cut
Type:Painting
Year:c1955
Size:22.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Casein
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
From the estate of Oregon WPA and commercial artist Douglas Lynch. Original Heaney frame.
"Figure in the Dunes"
Type:Painting
Year:1965
Size:9.50" x 17.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Prime period oil by Heaney retaining its original Image Gallery label
Desert Plants
Type:Etching
Year:c. 1944-45
Size:10.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Aquatint
Signed:Lower Right
Edition:Edition of 30
Notes:
This print was accepted for the National Print show in DC in 1945 and also exhibited at 'American Prints Today' in Indianapolis in 1946.