New England Summer is an ode to beaches, boats, sunshine, and outdoor fun! The new online exhibition features paintings, watercolors, and prints capturing the essence of our favorite season in New England!

New England Summer includes work by Leo Blake, William Partridge Burpee, Joan Hall, Molly Luce, Karen Lee Sobol, Arnold Trachtman, Beatrice Whitney Van Ness, and many others. The show is available to view on our website through September 6, 2026.

We're pleased to announce the new home of Childs Gallery at 22 Beacon Street in Boston's historic Beacon Hill neighborhood! Poised at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets, across from the Massachusetts State House and the Boston Common, our new gallery spans two floors, including a dedicated lower level space for our beloved Print Department.

We're excited for this new chapter in the gallery's long and storied history. Follow our journey to 22 Beacon on Instagram where we'll be sharing photos, stories, and more information detailing our transition.

Our inaugural exhibition at 22 Beacon will open this fall. We look forward to welcoming both new and familiar faces as we celebrate the next chapter at Childs Gallery! 

More to come soon!

Childs Gallery celebrates Pride Month with a special online exhibition highlighting artwork by historical and contemporary members of the LGBTQ+ community. 

Pride 2026 features work by Hannah Barrett, Paul Cadmus, Opal Ecker DeRuvo, Jared French, Keith Haring, Sedgwick Guth, Don Joint, E. Lombardo, George Platt Lynes, John MacConnell, Andy Warhol, and many others.

Enjoy a selection of small works, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and objet d'art, in our new online exhibition Tiny Treasures.

The show features works by David Avery, Henry Botkin, William Partridge Burpee, Diane Cherr, Natalie Hays Hammond, Bob Mizer, Dudley Vaill Talcott, and others.

Tiny Treasures is available to view on our website May 5 through July 5, 2026.

Boston Expressionist Jason Berger is lauded for his vivid, jubilant paintings of colorful motifs from around the globe. His printed work is a lesser known, but still important part of the artist's oeuvre. Jason Berger Prints, a new online exhibition, explores the artist's boldly graphic woodcuts.

Berger created his first woodcut in 1949. He chose this technique to "express ideas very clearly and in a simple, graphic way". It enabled him to personally engage in the step by step procedure of making woodcuts, beginning with the selection of materials and tools, and ending with the carving techniques, proofing and printing. According to Berger, "by using a simple method of printing, the printmaker could create without being too involved with complex techniques that in many cases become more important than the idea". 

Jason Berger Prints is available to view on our website April 2 through June 7, 2026.

Pastel: Color, Form, Feel is a new online exhibition celebrating the pastel medium through landscapes, cityscapes, and portraits spanning the past 150 years. 

The exhibition includes works by Frank Leonard Allen, Bryson Burroughs, William Partridge Burpee, Arthur B. Davies, Leon Dolice, R.H. Ives Gammell, Leo Meissner, Alice Ruggles Sohier, Hugh Townely, Vaclav Vytlacil, and others.

Pastel: Color, Form, Feel is available to view on our website February 11 through April 26, 2026.

We're writing to share an exciting update and a new chapter for Childs Gallery.

We're pleased to announce that we have acquired our own art storage facility just north of Boston. This exceptional space allows us to centralize our collection and streamline operations.

As part of this transition, we will not be renewing our lease at our current Newbury Street location, effective January 31 — a carefully-considered step as we position the gallery for what comes next. We are actively exploring several excellent options for a new gallery space in the area and look forward to sharing more soon.

In the interim, Childs Gallery will continue to operate by appointment. Beginning February 1, our team will be available at a private office studio on Newbury Street, and collectors may view works either there or at our new warehouse facility. We remain fully active with online exhibitions, a refreshed website, and upcoming art fairs, including the IFPDA Print Fair and Photo London.

We're deeply grateful for your continued support and excited for what's ahead!

Boston Proper is a new online exhibition of paintings, prints, and watercolors celebrating Boston scenes and landmarks by historic and contemporary artists.

Featuring works by Jason Berger, Gertrude Beals Bourne, William Partridge Burpee, Sean Flood, Arnold Trachtman, and others, the exhibition is available to view on our website through March 29, 2026.

Threads of Impressionism is a woven dialogue between contemporary textile artist Christine Jablonski and three turn-of-the-20th-century women Impressionists: Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868-1962), Beatrice Whitney Van Ness (1888-1981), and Anita Willets-Burnham (1880-1957). Jablonski translates her predecessors' painterly languages into textiles, using euroflax, cotton, and linen as her own palette. Through reimagining selected works by these three artists in a medium long tied to domestic labor, Jablonski aims to honor the lineage of women who have expanded, challenged, and transformed the boundaries of their fields.  

Threads of Impressionism is an exhibition that looks forwards and backwards at once, reinterpreting and reexamining the subjects, materials, and tools with which women artists have traditionally been associated. Jablonski sees the exhibition as an exploration of the inherent differences between the media of weaving and painting, and revels in possibilities created by both the limitations and freedoms of this juxtaposition. She further states of her work:  

'Painting is an inherently flexible medium—responsive to gesture, color, and spontaneous decision-making. Weaving, by contrast, is defined by the strict limitations of warp and weft, requires foresight and structure, and where creativity is bound by constraint. Historically, weaving has been relegated to the realm of "women's work," valued for its domestic utility as opposed to a vehicle of artistic expression. In returning to the loom to interpret the work of women painters, I explore the tension between freedom and limitation, between a medium traditionally celebrated as fine art and one historically dismissed as craft.' 

To honor each artist's vision, Jablonski has carefully selected weave structures she feels resonate with the individual styles of Bourne, Van Ness, and Willets-Burnham. For Bourne, a Boston-based watercolorist, Turned twill is used. This enabled Jablonski to work with many colors at once, allowing for hues to gather or evaporate across the surface, such that the weavings become a vibrating field of saturated threads, much like Bourne's canvases. For Van Ness, a New England painter and art educator, Jablonski chose crackle, a structure that inherently emphasizes the play of shadow and illumination, reflecting Van Ness' devotion to light and shifting tones. Overshot became the foundation for works inspired by Willets-Burnham, a world-traveling watercolorist and teacher from Chicago. Overshot amplifies grids and the geometric bias of weaving, mirroring Willets-Burnhams' exploration of form and structure. 

Pairing her weavings with paintings and watercolors, Jablonski makes visible the enduring influence of Bourne, Van Ness, and Willets-Burnham, creating a throughline bridging her reappropriation of 'craft' with the trailblazing oeuvres of early 20^th century working women artists. Translating brushstroke to thread, Jablonski sees her loom as both homage and subversion – a site where constraint reveals possibility and the overlooked becomes a vessel for reinterpreting the past.  

Christine Jablonski is an award-winning fiber artist whose work fuses traditional weaving and other techniques with contemporary interpretations of personal history, current events, and the narratives connected to women's creative labor.

Rooted in a deep respect for the structural intelligence of the loom, Jablonski's practice reflects both rigorous craft tradition and a conceptual approach to materials. She has exhibited regionally, with pieces held in private collections across the country. Jablonski lives and works in New England, where she continues to explore the expressive possibilities of thread, structure, and the stories woven between them. 

Christine Jablonski: Threads of Impressionism is on view in our upstairs gallery starting December 5, 2025. A reception with the artist will be held Sunday, December 14, 2-4pm.