Sunset on the Klickitats: an oil painting by Tuck Contreras

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Tuck Contreras

OIL PAINTINGS:

The River

Horizons
(a series of 10 paintings)

Oaks & Sky

* Sunset on the Klickitats

Looking East from The Dalles

Clouds & Oaks

Fractures
(a series of 9 paintings)

Greene with Blue Line

The Greene See

Boy with Sunset and the Sand

Sandstone and Tide

Historic Solana Beach

Storm Clouds off OB

project: Sunset on the Klickitats

Sunset on the Klickitats. Oil painting on canvas, 38 x 38 in.

Sunset on the Klickitats was painted in August 2005, and records the view northeast, across the Columbia River, from Tuck’s front porch in The Dalles.

Named after the Klickitat tribe of the Yakama Indian Nation (klickitat is a Chinookan word meaning beyond), the endless interlocking hills of the Klickitats make a dramatic scene, constantly changing across their surface with the seasons. During summer months, the Klickitats are covered by hundreds of miles of wheat fields, and the play of colors across the hills is spectacular.

This painting captures a typical summertime vista where the sunset on the dry wheat sets the hills aglow late in the day.

Sunset on the Klickitats is in the collection of Sandi Green and Linda Karmon.

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