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Charles Heaney

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Charles Edward Heaney (1897 - 1981) was active/lived in Oregon, Wisconsin.  Charles Heaney is 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 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 Art Museum School and studied there intermittently into the mid 1920s. From Harry Wentz, "an early a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3114 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Charles Heaney available:    Melville Wire,  Carl Morris,  Amanda Tester Snyder,  Albert Patecky,  Arthur Runquist,  Clyde Leon Keller,  Jefferson Tester,  Byron J Gardner,  Percy Manser,  Clara Stephens,  Robert Sperry,  Bird LeFever,  Thomas (Austin) Hardy,  Kenneth Callahan,  Eliza Barchus,  Oscar Hukari,  Thayne Logan,  Edward Burns Quigley,  Menalkas Selander,  Guy Irving Anderson,  Jules Bernard Dahlager,  Donald Schaffer,  George Stimmel,  John Dominique



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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Heaney
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Charles E Heaney: Memory, etc January 2005 Hull, Roger Yes
American Art Review The Lure of Pacific Northwest Art February 1999 Hull, Roger Yes
12 Book References for Charles Heaney
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959 251 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 National Collection/Fine Arts Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 141 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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