Frederick Robbins Childs (1908-1978) Untitled Modernist Still Life, Signed (1955, Oil on Canvas)

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Frederick Robbins Childs (1908-1978) - Untitled Still Life, Signed (1955, Oil on Canvas). Post-impressionist still life with flowers and fruit. … Read more Frederick Robbins Childs (1908-1978) - Untitled Still Life, Signed (1955, Oil on Canvas). Post-impressionist still life with flowers and fruit. Oil on canvas housed in a white washed wood frame. In very good condition with discoloration on the interior matte trim. Please refer to photos for details. Frame attributed to House of Heydenryk, NYC. From the solo show in 1960 at Passedoit Gallery in Manhattan. Signed and dated en recto.

Size: 30"h x 20"w and 38"h x 27"w

Frederick Robbins Childs was a Manhattan based post-Impressionist painter. A graduate of Harvard University, he began his career as a reporter for The New York World. However, he left journalism to pursue his interests and studies in art. He met his wife, Mary Alexandra Hitchcock, while they were both studying painting at the studio of André Lhote, the French Cubist painter.Lhote’s influence can be seen in many of Childs’ portrait and landscape paintings. Although he is described as a Post-Impressionist, Childs often incorporated the angular aesthetics of Cubism into his bright pallets.

During World War II, Mr. Childs served with the American Field Service in North Africa and with the United States infantry in Europe. After the war he had several one‐man shows at the Passedoit Gallery in Manhattan. See less