The artwork, titled “On the Snake River, Oregon,” was created by Childe Hassam in 1904. It belongs to the Impressionism art movement and is categorized within the landscape genre.
In the artwork, Childe Hassam masterfully captures the expansive and serene beauty of the Snake River area in Oregon through a landscape painting. The composition is dominated by a broad, open vista that stretches toward a distant horizon, where subtle mountain ridges meet the sky. The foreground is rich with dense, green vegetation, while the sky above is filled with tumultuous yet softly blended clouds, rendered in a palette of blues, whites, and light grays. These clouds suffuse the scene with diffused, natural light, casting a gentle glow upon the landscape below. The scene exudes tranquility and captures the essence of nature’s vastness and the serene beauty typical of Impressionist landscapes.
