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Exhibition: A Few of Our Favorite Things: Selections from Childs Gallery from November 22, 2024 to January 12, 2025 at Childs Gallery, Boston

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Selections from Childs Gallery

Press Release:

This holiday season we've asked our staff to share their favorite works of art at Childs Gallery. The resulting exhibition, A Few of Our Favorite Things, highlights an eclectic selection of beloved items and forgotten treasures from the gallery's extensive inventory. Most of the staff are art collectors themselves, representing a wide range of personal tastes, expertise, and collecting interests. We are thrilled to share a few of our favorite things and hope that you might find a shared vision or favorite of your own to add to your collection.     

Childs Gallery's storied inventory has been growing and evolving since the gallery was first established in 1937. We focus on fine American and European artwork, including paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and sculpture, from the Renaissance through Contemporary. Only a small fraction of this inventory is ever on view at one time in the gallery's exhibition spaces. As we move from one thematic or solo exhibition to the next, the full range of our offerings is often not immediately apparent to our clients. A Few of Our Favorite Things provides us with the perfect opportunity to open up our storerooms and display the exciting breadth of our artwork. 

Our comprehensive holdings are particularly appealing to today's eclectic taste, as it's the collector's eye, not the historic period or medium, which makes for a cohesive and personalized collection. Our inventory features superb paintings and sculpture from the past 200 years with an emphasis on mid-20th century American Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Boston Expressionism, Social and Magic Realism, women artists of the last century, queer artists, and other important genres and movements. While Childs is historically known for a broad collection of Marine Art and New England Impressionism, our current holdings also reflect the changing tastes of our clients, as well as new scholarship on artists and art historical periods. We seek to bridge the art of today with the great artists of previous centuries.  

As the selections in A Few of Our Favorite Things are wide ranging, Childs Gallery staff has provided a few brief explanations for choosing certain artworks for inclusion. As you visit the gallery and peruse the exhibition, please engage with staff to find out more about the diverse pieces on view! 

Richard Baiano, President and Owner: Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl was known as The Meissonier Of Boston for his small cabinet pictures of exquisite detail celebrating genre scenes in the Colonial Revival Style.  Small Audience, circa 1882, is a masterwork of his oeuvre showcasing his astonishing painting skills as costumes, fabrics, furniture and facial expressions pulsate to a larger than life scene in this small cabinet picture. 

Alex Davis, Executive and Curatorial Assistant: Itamjie #2 shows Rodger Blum's simultaneous mastery of control and embrace of the emergent and improvisational. Keeping in mind his successful career as a dancer and choreographer it is no surprise that the colors and shapes move across the cloth, inviting joy and allowing us to delight in the abstract. 

 Julie Edwards, Director: Reading from Frost transports the viewer to an idyllic hillside overlooking a farm. A small group of men and women relax and recline, listening to the poems of Robert Frost. I am always intrigued by the narrative quality of Molly Luce's paintings. She is an expert at setting a scene and letting a story unfold.  

Kathryn Fields, Director: Though known during his lifetime for work in fashion photography, George Platt Lynes is now best renowned for his stunning, intimate portraits of the male figure. [Chuck Howard Laying Down with Arrow] features Chuck Howard, Lynes' model, muse, and partner for several years in the late 1940s and early 50s. Howard's intense gaze in this photograph is mesmerizing, and the work as a whole offers a revealing look at the relationship between artist and model. 

Yvan Rosa, Gallery Assistant: In Don Joint's St. George Slaying the Dragon I enjoy the playfulness of the artist's appropriation of art historical sources. The painting, at once modern, bold, and colorful, is nevertheless enriched by familiarity with Crivelli's original work. Joint's transformation, a kind of metonymic fragmentation of the original painting, to me seems to mirror the fragmentary and partial nature of memory itself, prompting the viewer to compare and reexamine both works.  

Craig Tevolitz, Senior Vice President: Louis Fratino has been one of my favorite artists since I first discovered his work at a small show in Los Angeles years ago, and it's been thrilling to see his career take off. I'm drawn to his unique expressionist style, which feels both familiar and fresh—like a modern echo of German Expressionism and Picasso but told through the lens of a young gay man's experience.

On exhibit until January 12th, 2025
Painting By William Merritt Chase: Dancing Girl At Childs GalleryQuick View
26×1512IN.
Dancing Girl
Painting by Jerome Thompson: The Country Parson Disturbed at Breakfast by a Couple Wishin, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
29×35IN.
The Country Parson Disturbed
Sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas: Loving Day, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
22×10IN.
Loving Day
Painting by William Partridge Burpee: Gloucester Fisherman, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
13×9IN.
Gloucester Fisherman
Sculpture by Annemarie Petri: Hippofallus vulgairis, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
512×578IN.
Hippofallus vulgairis
Drawing By Jared French: Male Nude Releasing A Woman At Childs GalleryQuick View
712×438IN.
Male Nude Releasing a Woman
Print by Opal Ecker DeRuvo: Waiting, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
10×8IN.
Waiting
Painting By William Partridge Burpee: [fisherman And Dory] At Childs GalleryQuick View
514×1018IN.
[Fisherman and Dory]
Painting by John Sloan: Bakery Wagon, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
9×11IN.
Bakery Wagon
Painting by Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl: Small Audience, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
9×14IN.
Small Audience
Sculpture By Donald De Lue: Adam [and Eve] At Childs GalleryQuick View
9×7IN.
Adam [and Eve]
Sculpture By Donald De Lue: [adam And] Eve At Childs GalleryQuick View
10×7IN.
[Adam and] Eve
Watercolor by Louis Fratino: Untitled, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
12×9IN.
Untitled
Print By James Abbott Mcneill Whistler: Quiet Canal At Childs GalleryQuick View
878×6IN.
Quiet Canal
Painting By Ross Moffett: Conquest Of Mexico At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×30IN.
Conquest of Mexico
Print by Rembrandt: Jan Uytenbogaert, The Goldweigher, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
934×8IN.
Jan Uytenbogaert, The Goldweigher
Painting By Henry Koerner: Hat Shoppers At Childs GalleryQuick View
11×16IN.
Hat Shoppers
Sculpture by Richard H. Recchia: Golden Age, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×25IN.
Golden Age
Drawing by Edward Hopper: Study of Buildings, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
512×8IN.
Study of Buildings
Painting by Robert S. Neuman: Small Landscape, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
24×24IN.
$25,000
Small Landscape
Painting By Jacob Kainen: Eyrie At Childs GalleryQuick View
20×16IN.
$25,000
Eyrie
Painting by Robert Freeman: Red, Right, Return, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
60×54IN.
$22,000
Red, Right, Return
Painting By Sean Flood: Hospital Windows At Childs GalleryQuick View
62×48IN.
$20,000
Hospital Windows
Quick View
518×418IN.
$18,000
Untitled (Peter Berlin)
Painting by R.H. Ives Gammell: Study for Fragments of an Uncompleted Cycle, Panel 9, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
2634×21IN.
$18,000
Study for Fragments of
Drawing By Ricardo Cinalli: [portrait Of A Man] At Childs GalleryQuick View
40×38IN.
$16,000
[Portrait of A Man]
Sculpture By Dudley Vaill Talcott: Waitress At Childs GalleryQuick View
25×5IN.
$15,000
Waitress
Painting By Jason Berger: Floral Arrangement, Or Spring Flowers At Childs GalleryQuick View
30×24IN.
$12,500
Floral Arrangement, or Spring Flowers
Painting by Don Joint: St. George Slaying the Dragon, after Carlo Crivelli, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
37×37IN.
$12,000
St. George Slaying the
Mixed Media by Joan Hall: Caught in the Current 2, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
73×40IN.
$12,000
Caught in the Current 2
Painting by Marguerite Stuber Pearson: Still Life with Zinnias, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1914×2314IN.
$10,500
Still Life with Zinnias
Mixed Media by Henry Botkin: Blue Painting, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
21×25IN.
$8,500
Blue Painting
Painting By Anthony Moore: Behold A Pale Figure At Childs GalleryQuick View
9×6IN.
$8,500
Behold a Pale Figure
Painting by Molly Luce: Reading from Frost, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
16×20IN.
$8,500
Reading from Frost
Painting by William Partridge Burpee: Harvest Moon, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1018×1118IN.
$7,500
Harvest Moon
Painting By Caleb Arnold Slade: Maine Coast At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×29IN.
$6,500
Maine Coast
Watercolor By Gertrude Beals Bourne: Marlia Garden: Lucca, Italy [after John Singer Sargent] At Childs GalleryQuick View
14×21IN.
$6,500
Marlia Garden: Lucca, Italy
Photograph by George Platt Lynes: [Chuck Howard Laying Down with Arrow], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
8×734IN.
$6,000
[Chuck Howard Laying Down with Arrow]
Painting By Laurel Sparks: Teardrop Explodes At Childs GalleryQuick View
42×39IN.
$6,000
Teardrop Explodes
Quick View
934×634IN.
$5,500
Femme à sa toilette
Painting By Herbert Barnett: Still Life With Tulips In Brown Jug At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×18IN.
$5,500
Still Life with Tulips in Brown Jug
Photograph by Peter Berlin: Studio Self Portrait, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
13×812IN.
$5,500
Studio Self Portrait
Watercolor by Aiden Lassell Ripley: [Seated Woman], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
13×10IN.
$4,800
[Seated Woman]
Painting By Andrew Sedgwick Guth: All The Places I've Yet To See (waiting For You In My Dreams) At Childs GalleryQuick View
3334×2512IN.
$4,800
All the places I've
Textile by Rodger Blum: Itajine #2, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
4812×2012IN.
$4,750
Itajime #2
Drawing By Mike Kuchar: General At Childs GalleryQuick View
21×12IN.
$4,500
General
Ink Wash By Felipe Chavez: Hide, These Walls Can Hear Us At Childs GalleryQuick View
30×22IN.
$4,200
Hide, These Walls Can Hear Us
Painting by Henry Rodman Kenyon: [Distant Landscape], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
10×13IN.
$3,500
[Distant Landscape]
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