Harney Desert
Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Harney Desert, 1908, oil on canvas, Gift of Marian Wood Kolisch, no known copyright restrictions, 86.14
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- Title
Harney Desert
- Artist
- Date
1908
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
25 1/4 in x 30 1/4 in; frame: 35 7/8 in x 40 1/4 in x 15/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
maker's mark: CESW, brushed, lower left
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Marian Wood Kolisch
- Accession Number
86.14
- Copyright
no known copyright restrictions
- Terms
- Related Places
Depicts: Oregon
Depicts: Harney
Better known for his patronage of artists than for his own paintings, C.E.S. Wood was a gifted amateur whose watercolors and oil paintings frequently show the influence of the impressionist style favored by his friends J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam. Wood first showed promise as an artist during his years at West Point, where his instructor was Weir's father Robert W. Weir. This painting of eastern Oregon was most likely made in 1908 when he and Hassam traveled to Harney County; they frequently set up their easels side by side to interpret the same scene.
- Exhibitions
2004 Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West Portland Art Museum
