Mid Century Modern Oil Painting on Canvas of Woman Seated, Fredrick Childs, Circa 1960

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Mid Century Modern Oil Painting on Canvas of Woman Seated, by artist Fredrick Childs. Signed in his signature FR Childs … Read more Mid Century Modern Oil Painting on Canvas of Woman Seated, by artist Fredrick Childs. Signed in his signature FR Childs on lower right, titled em verso “The Purlein From Pascin". 20"h x 24"w overall.

Featuring a expressionist interior scene of a woman seated on a couch with shoes off, possibly wrapped in a sheet or blue dress. In muted red, green and orange tones.

Born 1908-1978

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.

Childs took a break from painting during World War II and served with the American Field Service in North Africa and with the United States. See less