Images(2)

Harney Desert Landscape

Artist Childe Hassam (American, 1859 - 1935)

Date1904

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 25 x 30 1/4 in. (63.5 x 76.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.66

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right corner: Childe Hassam 1904

Inscribedverso right of frame: 19 E 04 / Carrig-Rohane; verso tip right of frame: 17533

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th/20th Century American Galleries (111), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–May 5, 2013 Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, December 11, 2004–March 6, 2005ProvenanceColonel Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Portland, OR, 1904 Gift from Wood to Helen Ladd Corbett By descent in the family Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1989 from Babcock Galleries, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, "University Park, Pennsylvania—An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review 33, no. 4 (2021): 112 (ill., color). Joyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 10 (ill., detail), 16 (fig. 7), 187 (ill., color). Margaret E. Bullock, “Childe Hassam: en plein air,” Antiques 166 (December 2004): 90–91 (ill., color, pl. I). Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West (brochure) (Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2004), n.p. (ill., color). Margaret E. Bullock, Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West (Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2004), 36, 78 (ill., color, pl. 43), 100, 104. John Driscoll and Arnold Skolnick, The Artist and the American Landscape (Chesterfield, MA: Chameleon Books, 1998), 16, 19 (ill., color), 174. Edwin Bingham, “Childe Hassam in Oregon,” Oregon Festival of American Music, August 1998, 29 (ill., color).