Golden Afternoon

Childe Hassam

1908 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing

In the fall of 1908 Hassam camped with friends on the Blitzen River in the heart of Harney and Malheur Counties in eastern Oregon. He responded to the locale's vast expanses, barren buttes, blazing light, and opalescent colors in about thirty canvases and watercolors and ten or a dozen cigar-box-size panels. Hassam exulted in the remoteness and extraordinary look of the desert. "Golden Afternoon," one of the most ambitious of his Oregon landscapes, presents a panoramic view of Steens Mountain from the P Ranch, the party's headquarters.

Artist

Childe Hassam

Date

1908

Medium

Oil on canvas

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1911