Charles Heaney

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Charles Edward Heaney (1897-1981) was an American photographer and painter. During the Great Depression in the 1930s he worked for the Works Progress Administration as an artist and did several works with Mount Hood and Timberline Lodge as the subject matter.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Further reading 4 References

[edit] Early life

Heaney was born on August 22, 1897 in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin. Both he and his family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1913. After high school, he apprenticed as an engraver, but dabbled in art until he attended the Museum Art School in Portland.

[edit] Career

Though Heaney started as a print maker, he moved toward paintings as his career progressed. Like many Oregon artists, he was strongly influenced by his friend Clayton Price. Heaney adopted C.S. Price's ideal of the simple life, with almost obsessive dedication to his art.

Heaney loved Eastern Oregon, where he traveled extensively and took photos that would jog his memory when he returned to the studio to paint the landscapes he loved. Like Price, Heaney spent time as a WPA artist in the 1930s, painting several pictures for the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, several of which still hang in the lodge. In 2005, a retrospective of his work with more than 100 paintings and prints was put on by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Heaney died in 1981 in Portland.

[edit] Further reading

• Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination and Place, by Roger Hull.
• SI.edu

[edit] References

http://www.kpchr.org/public/sawardart/apps/Heaney.htm^[1]
http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/heaney_charles_edward/^[2]
http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=3575^[3]

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