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Charles Edward Heaney (1897–1981Wall text in "No Longer Forgotten: Uncovering the Stories of WPA Artists in the Northwest", Tacoma Art Museum, 2020) was an American painter and printmaker. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, he worked for the Works Progress Administration as an artist and did several works featuring Mount Hood and Timberline Lodge as the subject matter.
Heaney loved Eastern Oregon, where he traveled extensively and regularly worked from memory or sketches when he returned to the studio to paint the he loved. Like Price, Heaney spent time as a WPA artist in the 1930s, painting several pictures for the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, several of which still hang in the lodge.
In 1980, the Oregon Historical Society honored Charles Heaney with an extensive exhibit of his life's work, borrowed from many private collections. In 1982, a year after Heaney's death, Bush Barn Art Center in Salem, Oregon, featured an extensive retrospective, showing many paintings not previously exhibited. In 2005, a retrospective of his work with more than 100 paintings and prints was put on by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem. Heaney died in 1981 in Portland.
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