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Exhibition: Ruins: Online Exhibition from July 26, 2023 to August 31, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Ruins: Online Exhibition

Press Release:

Childs Gallery is pleased to present Ruins, our newest online exclusive exhibition assembled from our extensive inventory.


The remnants of the ancient Greco-Roman world captivated and inspired Western artists for centuries. In the newly emergent humanist culture of the Renaissance, the depiction of classical ruins took on an ethical and civic impetus as scholars and artists sought to reclaim the wisdom and lost knowledge of antiquity. Besides inspiring the aesthetic innovations that would germinate the Renaissance, these ruins provided a firm rooting for the development of European art and architecture for centuries to come.


Outside of this humanist context, ancient ruins also afforded the imaginative space for romanticist ruminations on both the awe-inspiring greatness as well as the vanities of long vanished civilizations. In this exhibition we present a selection of works that span from the early 18th century hyper-detailed etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the abstract and gestural monotypes of the 20th century artist Marion Huse. Including the work of Paul Parker, Joseph Pennell, Anita Willets-Burnham, and many others, we invite you to step back in time and enjoy our online exclusive exhibition.

On exhibit until August 31st, 2023
Print by Joseph Pennell: The Wine-Dark Sea, Sunium [The Temple of Poseidon at Cape Su, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×21IN.
The Wine-Dark Sea, Sunium
Print By Giovanni Battista Piranesi: View Of The Ruins Of The House Of Niccolo Di Rienzo Constructed From Fragments Of Ancient Buildings, From The Series Roman Antiques (le Antichita Romane) At Childs GalleryQuick View
514×8IN.
View of the Ruins
Print by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante (View of the temple of Ju, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
15×23IN.
$4,500
Veduta del Tempio di
Print By Erik Desmazières: Le Sac De Rome At Childs GalleryQuick View
2514×1914IN.
$3,500
Le Sac de Rome
Print by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Veduta del Tempio di Ercole nella Città di Cora... (View of , represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
14×20IN.
$3,500
Veduta del Tempio di
Watercolor by Anita Willets-Burnham: [The Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
18×14IN.
$3,200
[The Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens]
Watercolor by Edward Laning: Taormina [Sicily, Italy], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
15×20IN.
$3,200
Taormina [Sicily, Italy]
Drawing by Louis-Claude Mouchot: Vue de l'Arc de Titus à Rome, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
10×17IN.
$3,000
Vue de l'Arc de Titus à Rome
Print by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Veduta degli Avanzi delle fabbriche del Secondo Piano delle , represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
19×27IN.
$2,800
Veduta degli Avanzi delle
Watercolor by Anita Willets-Burnham: Mighty Roman Ruins at Baalbeck, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
18×14IN.
$2,700
Mighty Roman Ruins at Baalbeck
Painting by Paul Parker: Greek Ruins, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
18×24IN.
$2,500
Greek Ruins
Painting by John MacConnell: The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
30×2214IN.
$2,400
The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion
Print by Joseph Pennell: The Little Fête, Athens [Acropolis in the distance, Greece], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×21IN.
$1,800
The Little Fête, Athens
By Italian School: Colosseum Micromosaic Paperweight, At Childs GalleryQuick View
212×314IN.
$1,250
Colosseum Micromosaic Paperweight,
Print by Marion Huse: Ruins, Tours France, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
18×14IN.
$1,200
Ruins, Tours France
Print By Giovanni Battista Piranesi: View Of The Arches Of The Consuls Dolabella And Silanus Enclosed Within The Neronian Arches Of The Acqua Claudia, From The Series Roman Antiques (le Antichita Romane) At Childs GalleryQuick View
514×8IN.
$1,200
View of the Arches
Print by Joseph Pennell: Aegina, the Black Forest [Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×21IN.
$1,100
Aegina, the Black Forest
Print by Marion Huse: Ruins - Italy, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
13×18IN.
$950
Ruins - Italy
Print By Jean Michel Mathieux Marie: Coliseo At Childs GalleryQuick View
6×11IN.
$925
Coliseo
Print by Louis Rosenberg: Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
8×13IN.
$400
Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome
Print by Ellison Hoover: Ruined Columns, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
9×13IN.
$375
Ruined Columns
Print by Ellison Hoover: Roman Forum, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
13×9IN.
$375
Roman Forum
Print by Luigi Lucioni: Romantic Ruins, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
7×10IN.
$225
Romantic Ruins
Print by Currier and Ives: The Ivy Clad Ruins, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
10×14IN.
$225
The Ivy Clad Ruins
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Exhibition: Portuguese Summer: Paintings by Jason Berger from July 13, 2023 to September 9, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Portuguese Summer: Paintings by Jason Berger

Press Release:

Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger began visiting Portugal in the early half of the 1970s and would return for a part of almost every summer for the next twenty years, before moving there permanently in 1994. Berger painted mostly in the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost region known for its beautiful beaches and sparkling water, yet he eschewed these scenes in favor of others he considered more visually and intellectually interesting – buildings, trees, streets, boats – anything that would produce an expressive landscape. Portuguese Summer celebrates the artist's love of the country, and his uncanny ability to encapsulate its vibrant hues and atmosphere on canvas. Works in the exhibition span four decades, detailing Berger's summer sojourns and eventual residency in his adopted homeland and longtime muse, Portugal. 

Berger first visited Portugal with his then wife, artist Marilyn Powers, in the early 1970s. The artist recalled, "We spent a month in Faro and a month in Portimão… I was very happy with the motifs I found there, and Portugal certainly affected my painting style." After Powers tragically passed from breast cancer in 1976, Berger returned to Portugal the next summer on a painting excursion with his son and a former student, staying in the small fishing village of Ferragudo.  On this trip he met Estela Couto, who would become his second wife in 1978. Subsequent summers were spent on property owned by Estela's family – her mother's house in Carvoeiro and her grandmother's house in Lagoa. Berger remained in Portugal even after Estela's death in 1997, later marrying artist Leena Rekola in 1999. The couple lived and painted together in Portugal for nearly a decade, only moving back to the United States in 2008 due to Jason's poor health.  

Berger's summers abroad were a prolific time for the artist. He worked en plein air in Portugal, rising early between 5 and 8 o'clock in the morning before heading out to spend an entire morning, day, or several days on one painting. He worked on motifs, painting the same scene - a garden, boatyard, café, whatever else - multiple times, exploring different colors and angles. The resulting variations uniquely detail the effects of light and perspective on a singular location, showcasing Berger's particular approach to his environment and landscape painting. 

Portuguese Summer visits some of Berger's favorite towns and villages in the Algarve, including Carvoeiro, Estombar, Mexilhoeira, Silves, and Tavira. Berger also painted along the west coast of Portugal in Aveiro, Colares, Parede, and the capitol, Lisbon, where the artist and Estela had an apartment and would meet each July before traveling down to the Algarve coastline.  

Of Berger's connection to Portugal, Estela once noted: "He loves to paint in Portugal. For some reason, he feels very comfortable with the landscape here, as well as with the country and the people. He may have some difficulty with language, but he has an association with the people and the country that is fascinating to observe." Portuguese Summer celebrates this love of the land through paintings bursting with the vivid colors of Berger's seaside summers along Portugal's Atlantic coast.

On exhibit until September 16th, 2023
Exhibition: Opal Ecker DeRuvo: Touch and Recognition from June 1, 2023 to July 29, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Opal Ecker DeRuvo: Touch and Recognition

Press Release:

Childs Gallery is pleased to present Touch and Recognition, an exhibition of prints and photographs by transfeminine, transdisciplinary artist and collaborative printmaker, Opal Ecker DeRuvo. Showcasing the artist's interest in depicting intimate portraiture, Touch and Recognition examines the lineage of representational image making from the artist's earliest prints to their current photography practice.  

Spanning roughly a decade and multiple media, including drypoint, monotype, lithography, aquatint, and kallitype, DeRuvo's work connects printmaking, early photography techniques, and modern technology in a conversation surrounding the use of line and light in portraiture. DeRuvo's early works depict everyday personal scenes in small, intimate prints executed through traditional printmaking media. More recently, they have explored using historic photo-processes, large-scale image transfers, and laser imaging techniques to produce more expansive, black and white artworks. 

DeRuvo began printmaking as an apprentice to a master printmaker at the age of 14 and received their BFA in printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. For the next six years they worked as a collaborative printmaker at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. DeRuvo went on to receive their MFA from Yale in the painting and printmaking department, where they began to investigate the origins of photography within the materials and history of printmaking.  

DeRuvo is interested in the role of images in the formation of identity. Incorporating fundamental physics of light and the intricacy of our perception, their cross-disciplinary research looks to expand trans representation beyond the ways in which they are seen, and toward new ways of seeing. Their recent practice has sought to connect the materiality of photography with the experiences of trans-embodiment.  

DeRuvo's work as a printer has long been on display at Childs Gallery through their collaboration with artist E Lombardo – DeRuvo served as the printer for Lombardo's 2013-2016 series The Caprichos, a queer-feminist re-envisioning of all eighty plates in Francisco Goya's 1799 Los Caprichos. Their own work has since been included in many group shows at Childs, with Touch and Recognition marking their first solo exhibition at the gallery. They have additionally shown at the International Print Center of New York, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, the Westmoreland Museum of Art, and completed residencies at the Atelier Circulaire in Montreal, Quebec, and the Ateliers im Alten Schlachthof, Sigmaringen, Germany. They recently published a book of etchings with Edition Schwarze Seite in Germany and completed public art commissions at Artspace New Haven and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. DeRuvo is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. 

Touch and Recognition is on view at Childs Gallery June 1 through July 29, 2023. An opening reception with the artist will be held Sunday, June 11, 2-4pm. 

On exhibit until July 29th, 2023
Exhibition: John MacConnell: Fragments from May 18, 2023 to July 8, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

John MacConnell: Fragments

Press Release:

Fragments explores storytelling through the human form in both ancient and modern iterations, revealing fascinating commonalities between the two. Artist John MacConnell sketches and paints Classical sculptures alongside contemporary individuals, linking mythmaking in the Greco-Roman world with our current society. 

Using sculptures from the sanctuary at Delphi and the Acropolis in Athens as reference, MacConnell poses his models in the contrapposto forms of Hellenic statues. The figures are then fragmented, as ancient sculptures often are after thousands of years, missing an arm, leg, or even head, as if time and use had worn them away. 

Through the framework of these contemporary bodies juxtaposed with ancient sculptures, MacConnell examines the narratives we create about ourselves and others. Much as the stories we know about heroes and statesmen from antiquity are built from bits of information, our online personas are an amalgamation of pieces – curated selections from various social media accounts and dating profiles. MacConnell asks how the people of today will be remembered – what myths about us will develop from our fragmented digital footprint? 

In this way, MacConnell's new work in Fragments continues his interest in capturing different aspects of our experiences with social media, both the positive and negative. In particular, MacConnell explores how online communities engender virtual safe spaces for queer people. Such associations are often places for individuals to connect with each other when safe physical space or distance is an issue. Using these online communities, the artist connects and collaborates with people to make his work. His previous series Instant GratificationPinch Zoom, Rapid Development, and Pictura in Pictura reference the visual language distinctive to social media and the online world, and address themes of connection, flattery, idolatry, and objectification. 

Though inherent to a very modern medium, these ideas are paralleled in ancient statuary - Greek sculpture being particularly infamous for its insistence upon bodily perfection. The Classical period of Greek art developed an aesthetic based upon a set canon of proportions for the human form and the belief in the virtue of beauty – that one's outer looks are intrinsically tied to their inner morals. The Classical portrait thus displayed balance and harmony through idealization and the renouncement of realistic characterization, creating an aspirational visual tool for contemporaneous Greeks, and a representation of the body that continues to be influential to this day, with particular resonance in the gay community. 

MacConnell's paintings of Greek art come from photos taken during a 2009 trip, and mostly present works as they appear in museum settings - long removed from their places of origin and context. His images of contemporary models similarly lack identifiable surroundings that would ground them to a specific time or place. The removal of narrative framework leaves much to speculation, urging the creation of stories to fill in the unknowns, to understand who or what is being considered. His fracturing of body parts - noses, ears, genitalia, and more – produce modern ex votos, pieced offerings functioning as representations of one's whole self.

The work in Fragments, from antique statuaries to MacConnell's beautifully drafted modern analogs, adeptly correlates this notion of fiction building across thousands of years. Our understanding of art, myth, and history from antiquity is the result of selective curation, and crafted piecemeal just as much as our social media profiles. As time moves on our online presences grow, weaving stories both of our own making and as yet to-be-determined by future generations.  

After appearing in several group exhibitions, Fragments marks MacConnell's first solo show with Childs Gallery. Based in New York, MacConnell received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has also studied at the Willem de Kooning Académie in Rotterdam. 

John MacConnell: Fragments is on view May 18 through July 8, 2023. An opening reception with the artist will be held Friday, May 19, 6 to 8pm.

On exhibit until July 8th, 2023
Exhibition: Horror Vacui: When More Is More from April 13, 2023 to May 13, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Horror Vacui: When More Is More – Online Exhibition

Press Release:

The term horror vacui (fear of empty space) is used to denote artworks that are maximalist in their use of the available pictorial space. In such works the majority, if not the entirety, of the visual field is filled with details and incidents – often leading to works that have an all over, decorative effect. Originating as a pejorative denotation, Horror Vacui came into usage as Western audiences became increasingly familiar with the visual traditions of non-Wester cultures, in particular the intensely ornate fields pervasive in Islamic art. Gradually, the term was expanded to encompass a wider range of works and artistic styles, and took on a celebratory connotation as the overly sensorial nature can invoke a visceral response,  inviting the viewer to linger and savor the visual details. 

This online exhibition presents pieces from our collection that, in this lighter vein, celebrate visual excess and repetitive motifs. Including the work of Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Albert Decaris, Leo Meisner, and Lee Essex Doyle, amongst others, these artists invite the viewer to relish in the proliferation of forms.

On exhibit until May 13th, 2023
By Lee Essex Doyle: Dappled Reflections At Childs GalleryQuick View
6×6IN.
Dappled Reflections
Print by Erik Desmazières: Wunderkammer II, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1012×21IN.
Wunderkammer II
By Lee Essex Doyle: Amalfi Blue At Childs GalleryQuick View
2512×24IN.
Amalfi Blue
Painting by Anne Lyman Powers: Hurricane, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
36×48IN.
$25,000
Hurricane
Painting by Betty Herbert: Revolutionary War Series: George Washington and His Troops
, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
20×24IN.
$9,500
Revolutionary War Series: George
Painting By Thomas Darsney: The Head Of Jasper Johns At Childs GalleryQuick View
55×40IN.
$7,500
The Head of Jasper Johns
Print by Jan Pietersz Saenredam: Venus on Her Couch as Eros Fills His Quiver with Arrows [Aft, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
8×11IN.
$7,500
Venus on Her Couch
Painting By Hannah Barrett: Arsenic At Childs GalleryQuick View
50×40IN.
$7,000
Arsenic
Painting By Thomas Darsney: The Sitter At Childs GalleryQuick View
45×39IN.
$7,000
The Sitter
Mixed Media by Robert S. Neuman: Space Signs, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
914×1212IN.
$6,500
Space Signs
Mixed Media By Laurel Sparks: Faux D'artifice At Childs GalleryQuick View
49×42IN.
$6,500
Faux d'Artifice
Print By Erik Desmazières: Le Magasin De Robert Capia At Childs GalleryQuick View
2814×3514IN.
$6,500
Le Magasin de Robert Capia
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Parade, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
48×34IN.
$6,000
Parade
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Parade, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
46×3134IN.
$6,000
Parade
Print By Albert Decaris: Leda At Childs GalleryQuick View
33×37IN.
$6,000
Leda
Painting By Karen Lee Sobol: Goddess, Galapagos, Invaded At Childs GalleryQuick View
32×66IN.
$6,000
Goddess, Galapagos, invaded
Print By Albert Decaris: Le Pressoir I At Childs GalleryQuick View
2912×33IN.
$5,500
Le Pressoir I
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: The Preparation, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
47×34IN.
$4,800
The Preparation
Print By John Thompson: Dale At Childs GalleryQuick View
40×30IN.
$4,000
Dale
Print By Leo Katz: Is This The Meaning Of Life? At Childs GalleryQuick View
1318×18IN.
$3,200
Is this the Meaning of Life?
Print by William Evertson: Consumed by the Never Was, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
32×44IN.
$2,500
Consumed by the Never Was
Mixed media by Lee Essex Doyle: Study for Reflections, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
6×9IN.
$1,700
Study for Reflections
Drawing by Letterio Calapai: Nocturne II, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
13×10IN.
$1,500
Nocturne II
Drawing By Brilliant Lines: Brilliant Lines At Childs GalleryQuick View
2312×17IN.
$1,200
Brilliant Lines
Mixed media by Lee Essex Doyle: Study for Garden Gate Orange, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
5×4IN.
$1,200
Study for Garden Gate Orange
Mixed media by Lee Essex Doyle: Study for Garden Gate Blue, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
4×5IN.
$1,200
Study for Garden Gate Blue
Hindu Rhapsody
Print by Leo Meissner: Memories of St. Augustine [Florida], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
8×11IN.
$550
Memories of St. Augustine [Florida]
Print By John Lawrence: The Four Seasons: Autumn At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×534IN.
$500
The Four Seasons: Autumn
Print By John Lawrence: The Four Seasons: Spring At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×534IN.
$500
The Four Seasons: Spring
Print By John Lawrence: The Four Seasons: Summer At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×534IN.
$500
The Four Seasons: Summer
Print By John Lawrence: The Four Seasons: Winter At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×534IN.
$500
The Four Seasons: Winter
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Exhibition: Gaze: A Pictorial History of Physique Photography from March 30, 2023 to May 26, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Gaze: A Pictorial History of Physique Photography

Press Release:

Gaze explores the evolution of physique or 'beefcake' photography, from its earliest inception within the bodybuilding community, to ambiguously referential Classical-posed imagery, to its final incarnation as explicitly homoerotic material directly marketed to a burgeoning gay community. Artists featured include luminaries of the genre, such as Gregor Arax (Studio Arax), Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles), Alonzo Hanagan (Lon of New York), Bob Mizer (AMG Studios), Al Urban, Don Whitman (Western Photography Guild), and others. These individuals were not only pioneering photographers, but also savvy businessmen and some of the earliest gay rights activists, changing the status quo for gay men by challenging morality and censorship laws within the US. 

The early 20th century saw a rise of interest in physical culture, a side effect of the rapid urbanization of society, wherein the traditional hallmarks of masculinity became increasingly both immaterial and inaccessible to white, middle-class men. Thus, new markers of masculinity were born, such as playing sports and the maintenance of a muscular body. By the 1930s, a robust number of magazines dedicated to bodybuilding were in circulation, and their large gay fanbase was an open secret. Enterprising photographers, finding their suggestive material barred from 'respectable' physique periodicals, eventually struck out on their own, launching magazines that specifically catered, through coded innuendo, to homosexual audiences. 

With the inception of magazines such as Physique Pictorial, VIM, Tomorrow's Man, and Grecian Guild Pictorial, photographers shifted their images away from the heavily muscled bodies of professional weightlifters to a more aesthete look - models with natural builds in posing straps, scant thong-style undergarments. The posing straps helped to skirt around existing obscenity laws - as gay pornography was illegal, these publications continued to operate under the pretense of interest in health and fitness, and the models were accordingly 'clothed.' The magazines, therefore, were able to be widely available at newspaper stands, bookstores, pharmacies, and through the mail.  

Physique models were often complemented on set with costumes and stage dressing, further distancing beefcake magazines from their bodybuilding forebearers. Playfully attired as gladiators, sailors, and cowboys, the images alluded to traditionally masculine figures and pursuits, while titillating their audience through fetishistic insinuations. Poses also frequently referenced the art and culture of Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance. Allusions to ancient sculptures of gods and athletes, as well as Renaissance paintings – the bound St. Sebastian being a favorite – helped downplay the salacious nature of the photos, while also beautifully demonstrating the artistry of studio photographers. Classical Greece was a particularly popular reference point, with some magazines espousing nostalgia for Hellenism where "the body of a muscular, graceful, well-proportioned youth was among the most admirable of all things." 

The enticing photographs within these periodicals were often a youth's first foray into wider gay society. Publications fostered an immense sense of community with their audiences, encouraging readers to correspond both amongst themselves and with the models. Subscribers were also given access to a larger network of gay consumer culture including books, artwork, recipes, clothing, music, and film. The increasing sense of identification as a group was bolstered by an atmosphere of friendship and inclusion, though racial exclusion continued, mostly perpetuated by the customers rather than publishers. 

Beefcake magazines and related materials like pen-pal clubs eventually drew the ire of the US Postal Office, and crackdowns began targeting both individual consumers and larger organizations. Supreme Court cases One, Inc. v. Olesen (1958) and Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day (1962) saw publishers fight against obscenity charges and win landmark decisions allowing for the open distribution of male nude imagery. Without the impediment of illegality, physique magazines again shifted to a more open depiction of sexuality, including explicit frontal nudity.  

The Supreme Court decisions in favor of physique and gay publishers would, however, ultimately usher in the decline of beefcake magazines. With gay pornography essentially decriminalized, male nude photography dropped the pretext of fitness, allowing a new generation of photographers to produce high quality male erotica available to be sold commercially. Liberation from morality laws also enabled male nude photography to enter the world of fine art and paved the way for celebrated artists to sensitively explore the male form in their works. 

Gaze surveys physique photography through its early years in the 1930s to its heyday of the 1950s and early 60s. Though once denigrated for their subject matter, beefcake photographers are now being reassessed: their works reexamined based on artistic merit and themselves recognized as trailblazers championing the beauty of the male form at a time when it was dangerous to do so. 

 

On exhibit until May 26th, 2023
Photograph by Al Urban: [Jack Gallagher Posing as Atlas], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
912×712IN.
[Jack Gallagher Posing as Atlas]
Photograph by Danny Fitzgerald (Les Demi Dieux): [Nestor Derkach], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
958×712IN.
[Nestor Derkach]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model as a Sailor], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
458×312IN.
[Mark Nixon as a Sailor]
Photograph by Tony Lanza: [Steve Reeves Flexing], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1318×912IN.
[Steve Reeves Flexing]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Models Conversing and Smoking], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
[Unidentified Models Conversing and Smoking]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model, Exercising], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
[Bud Counts, Exercising]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model as a Gladiator], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
[Unidentified Model as a Gladiator]
Photograph by Al Urban: [Physique, Renaissance Pose], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
612×412IN.
$2,400
[Fred DeGroot and Unidentified
Photograph by Ralph Kelly: [Unidentified Models Sharing a Posing Strap], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
10×8IN.
$1,800
[Unidentified Models Sharing a Posing Strap]
Photograph by Gregor Arax (Studio Arax of Paris): Charles Kassapian, Mr. Junior Paris, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
7×912IN.
$1,500
Charles Kassapian, Mr. Junior Paris
Photograph by Don Whitman (Western Photography Guild): [Unidentified Model Bound as St. Sebastian], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
10×8IN.
$1,500
[Unidentified Model Bound as St. Sebastian]
Photograph by Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles): [Unidentified Model with Disc], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
712×712IN.
$1,200
[Brian Idol with Disc]
Photograph by Gregor Arax (Studio Arax of Paris): [Model Kneeling with Arms Outstretched], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
878×658IN.
$1,200
[Model Kneeling with Arms Outstretched]
Photograph by Alonzo Hanagan (Lon of New York): [Untitled Model from the Rear], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
758×912IN.
$1,200
[Untitled Model from the Rear]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model as a Sailor from the Rear], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
958×738IN.
$1,200
[Unidentified Model as a
Photograph by Avery Willard: [Unidentified Models with Rope], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
912×712IN.
$950
[Unidentified Models with Rope]
Photograph by Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles): [Jim Vorus: Mr. Muscle Beach, 1964], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
912×712IN.
$850
[Jim Vorus: Mr. Muscle Beach, 1964]
Photograph by Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles): [Brian Idol, sitting], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
912×712IN.
$850
[Brian Idol, sitting]
Photograph by Al Urban: [Kenneth Pendleton Flexing], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
614×414IN.
$625
[Kenneth Pendleton Flexing]
Photograph by Chuck Renslow (Kris Studios): [Unidentified Model with Drapery], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
$500
[Unidentified Model with Drapery]
Photograph by Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles): [Paul Strand as a Cowboy], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
7×5IN.
$500
[Paul Strand as a Cowboy]
Photograph by Tom Nicholl (Scott of London): [Unidentified Model as a Sailor], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×458IN.
$500
[Unidentified Model as a Sailor]
Photograph by Bruce Bellas (Bruce of Los Angeles): [Kirk Bond as a Cowboy with a Whip], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
7×5IN.
$500
[Kirk Bond as a
Photograph by Alonzo Hanagan (Lon of New York): [Tommy Hume, Tattooed Sailor], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
5×4IN.
$500
[Tommy Hume, Tattooed Sailor]
Photograph by Frederick Kovert (Kovert of Hollywood): [Man flexing], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
512×312IN.
$475
[Man flexing]
Photograph by Don Whitman (Western Photography Guild): [Unidentified Model Posing as Adam], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
333100×458IN.
$475
[Jim Dardanis Posing as Adam]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Andrew Kozak and Dick Dubois as Artist and Model], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×338IN.
$425
[Andrew Kozak and Dick
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model with a Sword], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
$425
[Unidentified Model with a Sword]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Models Holding Hands], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
$425
[Andy Kozak and Forrester Millard Holding Hands]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model as a Gladiator with a Sword], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
$375
[Unidentified Model as a
Photograph by Don Whitman (Western Photography Guild): [Phil Lambert, Bound], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
458×358IN.
$375
[Phil Lambert, Bound]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Unidentified Model Posing with a Bow and Arrow], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
458×358IN.
$375
[Unidentified Model Posing with
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Larry Farrell, Standing], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
438×312IN.
$375
[Larry Farrell, Standing]
Photograph by Bob Mizer: [Henry Wright, Kneeling], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
438×338IN.
$375
[Henry Wright, Kneeling]
Photograph by Don Whitman (Western Photography Guild): [Phil Lambert], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
412×312IN.
$375
[Phil Lambert]
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Exhibition: Make It New: Modernist Paintings, 1930 16975 from March 16, 2023 to May 13, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Make It New: Modernist Paintings, 1930-1975

Press Release:

"Make it new"—more than a call to aesthetic innovation, Ezra Pound's modernist dictum carried the weight of an ethical imperative. Emerging as a response to the economic and technological revolutions that had torn asunder old social relations, the modernist sought an art form that could respond in equal measure to the times. Thus, the call to bury old artistic formulas in favor of aesthetic experimentation and innovative techniques was understood as an appeal to more deeply and authentically grapple with the experience of an ever-mutable modernity. 

Make it New: Modernist Paintings, 1930 – 1975 presents work by both international and local artists that took up modernism's gauntlet and sought formal experimentation as a primary goal. These artists actively engaged the liminal possibilities of the pictorial medium to expand its expressive potential. 

The exhibition encompasses many different artistic movements that fall broadly under the umbrella term 'Modernism.' The roots of Modernism itself trace back to the 19th century when artists began to deviate from the strict confines of realism, but its tenets became boldly prominent in the early half of the following century and carried onwards. Make It New explores the various facets of Modern art, as works pivoted away from the representational toward the surreal and abstract, and subsequently branched forward into a myriad of other correlated genres. 

Featuring works by Milton Avery, Herbert Barnett, Jason Berger, Henry Botkin, Ted Davis, Werner Drewes, Ruth Eckstein, Jacob Kainen, Henry Koerner, Lawrence Kupferman, Sally Michel, Raymond Moisset, Robert S. Neuman, and Ben Norris, among others, Make It New pulls from Childs Gallery's extensive inventory, presenting an array of artists who pushed the boundaries of what painting meant and what a painting could be, during several decades of dynamic restructuring for Western society. 

The work of Herbert Barnett, for example, draws from the formal innovations pioneered by Picasso and Braque's Cubist experimentations. From these works can be traced an ever-expanding repertoire of techniques that sought to open up the formal limits of painting. Sally Michel took up Matisse's flat, expansive color plains and Lawrence Kupferman, in a radical withdrawal of authorial intent that would foreshadow things to come, experimented with pouring paint directly on to the picture surface in order to allow the pigment to freely find its own path. 

Make It New: Modernist Paintings, 1930-1975 is on view at Childs Gallery March 16 through May 13, 2023.

On exhibit until May 13th, 2023
Painting By Ben Norris: Landscape Variations No. 2 Sardonic Interlude At Childs GalleryQuick View
30×40IN.
Landscape Variations No. 2 - Sardonic Interlude
Painting By Ross Moffett: Conquest Of Mexico At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×30IN.
Conquest of Mexico
Painting by Robert S. Neuman: Game of Chance, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
5112×5112IN.
Game of Chance
Painting By Henry Koerner: Hat Shoppers At Childs GalleryQuick View
11×16IN.
Hat Shoppers
Watercolor By Milton Avery: Spotlight Or Singing Trio, From The Theater Series At Childs GalleryQuick View
12×18IN.
Spotlight or Singing Trio,
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 Henry Botkin: Blue Space, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
44×3334IN.
$16,000
Blue Space
Painting By Henry Botkin: [untitled] At Childs GalleryQuick View
3334×4234IN.
$16,000
[Untitled]
Painting by Henry Botkin: Vortex, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
33×44IN.
$16,000
Vortex
Painting by Ben Norris: Night Portents, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
48×56IN.
$15,000
Night Portents
Painting by Werner Drewes: Stones and Pine Needles, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×20IN.
$14,000
Stones and Pine Needles
Painting by Werner Drewes: [French] Hilltown, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
14×10IN.
$13,600
[French] Hilltown
Painting by Jacob Kainen: Discussion, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
32×40IN.
$12,500
Discussion
Painting By Karl Zerbe: Angel And Rooster At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×32IN.
$9,500
Angel and Rooster
Mixed Media by Robert S. Neuman: Voyage Drawing, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
2058×2538IN.
$9,500
Voyage Drawing
Painting By Ruth Eckstein: Distant Goal At Childs GalleryQuick View
32×28IN.
$8,500
Distant Goal
Painting by Jacob Kainen: U Street Capriccio, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
24×30IN.
$7,500
U Street Capriccio
Painting By Herbert Barnett: Still Life With Jugs At Childs GalleryQuick View
2912×24IN.
$7,500
Still Life with Jugs
Painting By Herbert Barnett: Still Life Yellow Vase At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×30IN.
$7,500
Still Life - Yellow Vase
Mixed media by Edward Laning: The Escape, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
24×18IN.
$6,500
The Escape
Painting by Ben Norris: Space Series No. 13: Space Cluster, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
36×40IN.
$6,500
Space Series No. 13: Space Cluster
Mixed Media by Robert S. Neuman: Voyage Drawing #5, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
8×1212IN.
$6,000
Voyage Drawing #5
Painting by Fritz Levedag: Square, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
6×4IN.
$5,000
Square
Painting by Gyorgy Kepes: Subdued Glow, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
15×19IN.
$4,500
Subdued Glow
Painting By Ruth Eckstein: [still Life With Green Apples] At Childs GalleryQuick View
16×24IN.
$4,000
[Still Life with Green Apples]
Painting by Ruth Eckstein: [Blue Still Life with Pears], available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
24×14IN.
$4,000
[Blue Still Life with Pears]
Painting by Lawrence Kupferman: September Landscape, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
39×1614IN.
$3,500
September Landscape
Collage By Henry Botkin: Nature Song At Childs GalleryQuick View
9×10IN.
$2,250
Nature Song
Painting by Ben Norris: Mexico XII: Opening, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
12×1058IN.
$1,500
Mexico XII: Opening
Painting by Ben Norris: Mexico XI: Offering, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1212×1058IN.
$1,500
Mexico XI: Offering
Collage By Henry Botkin: Soft Pink At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×6IN.
$1,500
Soft Pink
Collage By Henry Botkin: Etude No. 4 At Childs GalleryQuick View
7×4IN.
$975
Etude No. 4
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Exhibition: Arnold Trachtman: On the Town from January 12, 2023 to March 11, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Arnold Trachtman: On the Town

Press Release:

Arnold Trachtman's (1930-2019) vibrant Expressionist views of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding cities are on view in On the Town, a new exhibition of work by the prolific, though somewhat overlooked artist.  Born in Lynn, Trachtman spent most of his life in the Greater Boston area, eschewing the artistic hub of New York for his roots in New England. After serving overseas in the aftermath of World War II and receiving his Masters degree from the Art Institute of Chicago, Trachtman returned to the East Coast to begin a long career of teaching, painting, and activism. Though much of his art was political in nature, Trachtman also continually produced scenes of his immediate world: the bridges, buildings, parks, and squares of Metro Boston. Each of these paintings brim with life, Trachtmans' keen observations detailing both the notable architecture and colorful characters inhabiting familiar locales, capturing a more personal view of the "town" he called home.  

As a child, Trachtman didn't excel academically, but was painting and drawing constantly. He would eventually graduate from esteemed art schools including the aforementioned Art Institute of Chicago and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he would also later teach. Artistically, Trachtman straddled many genres and movements. Though not a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, as a Jewish artist working in representational figuration in the Boston area during the mid-twentieth century, he is linked to the Boston Expressionists. His commitment to depicting urban life – especially the working-class cities and denizens of Greater Boston - also firmly associates Trachtman with social realism. A dedicated Marxist, he is frequently referred to as a 'protest artist' – his works were often politically motivated and confronted social justice issues.  

While spanning genres and defying easy categorization, Trachtman's artwork finds its focus through visual storytelling, whether political or personal. The paintings in On the Town are of the latter sort, expressively documenting the sites Trachtman would have seen, the streets he would have walked, daily. Mostly dating from the 1960s, they are historical snapshots, recordings on canvas of specific times and places deeply personal to the artist. The exhibition is reminiscent of a walking tour through various cities and towns, with Trachtman as a guide, pointing out interesting details that may have gone otherwise unnoticed. Viewing the world through Trachtman's eyes, his joyfulness in the familiar is apparent – his paintings revel in the color and movement of city life, particularly when depicting the comings and goings of local residents. Trachtman loved his community, and the feeling was reciprocated - when a house fire destroyed much of his early work, local businesses chipped in to help the artist start over.  

The works in On the Town celebrate city life and community, illuminating a Boston area of the past through the vision of one of its more unique residents. Trachtman's paintings tell stories and reveal an artist as deeply invested in his neighborhood as it was in him. On the Town is on view at Childs Gallery January 12 through March 11, 2023. 

On exhibit until March 11th, 2023
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Longfellow Bridge, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
2934×4012IN.
Longfellow Bridge
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Night on the River, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
21×36IN.
Night on the River
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Bridge (Watertown, MA), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
2334×3414IN.
Bridge (Watertown, MA)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Charles River, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
3534×5614IN.
Charles River
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Central Square, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
60×65IN.
$12,500
Central Square (Cambridge, MA)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Central Square, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
5114×6412IN.
$12,500
Central Square (Cambridge, MA)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: The Watchers (Triptych), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
3934×6814IN.
$12,000
The Watchers (Triptych)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Lawrence Street (Cambridge), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
46×41IN.
$8,000
Lawrence Street (Cambridge, MA)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Smile Saver, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
36×48IN.
$7,000
Smile Saver
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Parade, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
48×34IN.
$6,000
Parade
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Parade, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
46×3134IN.
$6,000
Parade
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Kinder Spiel (Children's Game), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
36×3334IN.
$5,000
Kinder Spiel (Children's Game)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Study for Painting of Lynn, MA, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
28×27IN.
$5,000
Study for Painting of Lynn, MA
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Dana St., Cambridge, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
38×28IN.
$4,500
Dana Street (Cambridge, MA)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Swan Boat, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
23×27IN.
$4,500
Swan Boat
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Factory, Boston, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
36×30IN.
$4,500
Factory, Boston
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Boston University Bridge, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
30×3934IN.
$4,500
Boston University Bridge
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Lynn, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
30×35IN.
$4,500
Lynn
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Kids in Trees (Parade), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
37×24IN.
$4,000
Kids in Trees (Parade)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Lynn, Cathedral of Commerce, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
24×3514IN.
$4,000
Lynn, Cathedral of Commerce
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Summer Evening (Boston Public Garden), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
29×24IN.
$4,000
Summer Evening (Boston Public Garden)
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Study for Mr. Tillson Makes His Way Through the Brickyard (Lynn, MA), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
16×30IN.
$3,800
Study for Mr. Tillson
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Bridge with Cola Sign, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
23×38IN.
$3,200
Bridge with Cola Sign
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Subway, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
24×36IN.
$3,200
Subway
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Balloons, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
32×20IN.
$3,000
Balloons
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Exhibition: Hidden Worlds: Prints and Drawings by Erik Desmazières from January 6, 2023 to March 25, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Hidden Worlds: Prints and Drawings by Erik Desmazières

Press Release:

Hidden Worlds, a new exhibition of work by French master printmaker Erik Desmazières, journeys through the artist's intricately detailed spaces, revealing imaginary cosmos and surrealist views of everyday scenes. With the meticulous draftsmanship of Old Masters like Dürer and Piranesi, Desmazières creates works that envision new worlds - images based both on the artist's imagination and experiences. The exhibition highlights Desmazières' early work, heavy with fantasy and science fiction leanings, and is supplemented by later uniquely cerebral views of Parisian rooftops, arcades, and ateliers. Hidden Worlds explores these complexly inviting spaces through prints and drawings that span Desmazières' nearly six-decade career. 

A copperplate etching revivalist working in the genre of Art Fantastique, Desmazières' work plays with both tradition and progression. Combining the past, present, and future, the artist displays his mastery of world-building, producing images and views of people, places, and things that never were, but certainly feel as if they could have been. His uncanny attention to detail and hand for atmospheric light and shadow brings to life scenes in a variety of reoccurring motifs: cities and buildings, battles and warriors, libraries and letters, wonder chambers and curiosities, comedies and characters. With each, the artist envisions an imaginary world unto itself, all demanding of a longer look, a deeper investigation into the singular world he has created. It is as if something more, something exciting, something important is happening right outside the boundary of the artist's plate.  

Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1948 to a French diplomat, Erik Desmazières has been described as arguably the finest French printmaker of his generation. After graduating from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1971, he turned his attentions towards the arts, having drawn since childhood. He subsequently studied printmaking at the Cours du Soir de la Ville de Paris. During his career Desmazières has received the Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville de Paris, and was elected to the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français, where he has served as President since 2006. He continues to be a force in printmaking, with solo museum exhibitions throughout the world, including major shows in France, the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan.

Hidden Worlds marks the fourth solo exhibition of Desmazières' work at Childs Gallery.Hidden Worlds: Prints and Drawings by Erik Desmazières is on view in the Childs Gallery print department January 6 through March 25, 2023.

On exhibit until March 25th, 2023
Print By Erik Desmazières: Passage Du Bourg L'abbé At Childs GalleryQuick View
2438×1758IN.
Passage du Bourg l'Abbé
Print By Erik Desmazières: Galerie Vivienne At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×17IN.
Galerie vivienne
Print by Erik Desmazières: Wunderkammer II, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1012×21IN.
Wunderkammer II
Print by Erik Desmazières: Le Déluge, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
16×2314IN.
Le Déluge
Print By Erik Desmazières: Passage Choiseul At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×17IN.
Passage choiseul
Print By Erik Desmazières: La Coursive Nord Sud, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×13IN.
$10,000
La Coursive nord-sud, from
Print By Erik Desmazières: Les Réserves Est Ouest, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×13IN.
$10,000
Les Réserves est-ouest, from
Print By Erik Desmazières: Travée Est Ouest, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×13IN.
$10,000
Travée est-ouest, from Le
Print By Erik Desmazières: Le Bureau Des Ordres, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
20×14IN.
$10,000
Le Bureau des ordres,
Print By Erik Desmazières: Le Grand Orgue Pneumatique, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
20×14IN.
$10,000
Le Grand orgue pneumatique,
Print By Erik Desmazières: Frontispice, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
20×14IN.
$10,000
Frontispice, from Le Magasin
Print By Erik Desmazières: Les Escaliers Côté Est, From Le Magasin Central Des Imprimés At Childs GalleryQuick View
24×13IN.
$10,000
Les Escaliers côté est,
Print By Erik Desmazières: Le Magasin De Robert Capia At Childs GalleryQuick View
2814×3514IN.
$6,500
Le Magasin de Robert Capia
Print by Erik Desmazières: L'Atelier de Louis Icart, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
2312×1612IN.
$6,500
L'Atelier de Louis Icart
Print By Erik Desmazières: Le Sac De Rome At Childs GalleryQuick View
2514×1914IN.
$3,500
Le Sac de Rome
Print By Erik Desmazières: Les Roues At Childs GalleryQuick View
2538×1912IN.
$3,250
Les Roues
Print By Erik Desmazières: Atelier René Tazé, Villa Du Lavoir At Childs GalleryQuick View
1834×28IN.
$2,800
Atelier René Tazé, Villa du Lavoir
Print By Erik Desmazières: Passage Du Caire At Childs GalleryQuick View
17×24IN.
$2,800
Passage du Caire
Print by Erik Desmazières: Une Ville dans les Falaises, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
26×19IN.
$2,500
Une Ville dans les Falaises
Print By Erik Desmazières: L'ecroulement At Childs GalleryQuick View
22×17IN.
$2,500
L'Ecroulement
Print by Erik Desmazières: Jardin à Bordeaux, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1112×8IN.
$1,800
Jardin à Bordeaux
Print By Erik Desmazières: Coloquintes Devant Une Ville At Childs GalleryQuick View
734×934IN.
$1,800
Coloquintes devant une ville
Print By Erik Desmazières: Jardin En Italie At Childs GalleryQuick View
814×1112IN.
$1,750
Jardin en Italie
Print By Erik Desmazières: L'orangerie De Pressy At Childs GalleryQuick View
1834×2914IN.
$1,650
L'Orangerie de Pressy
Print By Erik Desmazières: Ville Imaginaire At Childs GalleryQuick View
7×1812IN.
$1,650
Ville imaginaire
Print By Erik Desmazières: Une Maman Apprenant à Son Fils à Voler At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×1112IN.
$1,250
Une Maman apprenant à son fils à voler
Print By Erik Desmazières: Ville Rocheuse At Childs GalleryQuick View
7×1812IN.
$1,200
Ville rocheuse
Print By Erik Desmazières: Entrance Hall With A Globe At Childs GalleryQuick View
934×712IN.
$850
Entrance Hall with a Globe
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Exhibition: Nocturnes from December 27, 2022 to January 28, 2023 at Childs Gallery, Boston

Nocturnes – Online Exhibition

Press Release:

Childs Gallery is pleased to present our latest online exclusive exhibition, Nocturnes.

James McNeill Whistler popularized the term "nocturne" in regards to works of visual art. Prior to Whistler's novel usage of the term, nocturnes referred to a musical compositions, usually an ensemble piece in several movements, intended for an evening party. During the Romantic era nocturnes underwent an evolution, they became single-movement character pieces usually written for solo piano that were meant to be evocative of night.  It was with this latter association in mind that Whistler began to incorporate the word in his titles, creating night scenes with a dreamlike, pensive mood. Since then the term gained a broader usage and has come to refer to any artwork that either directly represents a night scene or is evocative of night.

In this exhibition we present a wide array of works from our collection, including paintings, pastels, prints, and watercolors from a diverse set of artist, including Jean Michel Mathieux-Marie, Frank Benson, Leo Meissner, Resa Blatman, and many others.

On exhibit until January 28th, 2023
Print by Frank Benson: Dark Pool, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
8×11IN.
Dark Pool
Painting by Arnold Trachtman: Night on the River, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
21×36IN.
Night on the River
Print by Armin Landeck: Manhattan Rooftop in Moonlight, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
5×12IN.
Manhattan Rooftop in Moonlight
By Lee Essex Doyle: Amalfi Blue At Childs GalleryQuick View
2512×24IN.
Amalfi Blue
Print By Emily Lombardo: Plate 36: A Bad Night, From The Caprichos At Childs GalleryQuick View
9×6IN.
Plate 36: A bad night, from The Caprichos
Painting by Resa Blatman: Dark Star, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
60×40IN.
$20,000
Dark Star
Painting by Betty Herbert: World Trade Center Series: Night Excavation, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
30×40IN.
$18,000
World Trade Center Series: Night Excavation
Pastel by William Partridge Burpee: [Moonlight on Crashing Waves], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
19×24IN.
$16,000
[Moonlight on Crashing Waves]
Painting By Sean Flood: Six Small Rooms, Naples, Italy At Childs GalleryQuick View
47×34IN.
$11,500
Six Small Rooms, Naples, Italy
Print by Otto Bacher: Rainy Night, Venice, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
5×12IN.
$8,500
Rainy Night, Venice
Painting By Adam Van Doren: San Marco In Moonlight At Childs GalleryQuick View
21×27IN.
$8,000
San Marco in Moonlight
Print by Nathaniel Currier: Life of a Fireman: The Night Alarm - "Start her lively boys", represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
18×25IN.
$6,000
Life of a Fireman:
Print by Félix Buhot: Le Place des Martyres et la Taverne du Bagne, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×21IN.
$6,000
Le Place des Martyres
Print By Joseph Pennell: Wren's City [st. Paul's From The Thames, London, England] At Childs GalleryQuick View
9×11IN.
$5,500
Wren's City [St. Paul's
Print by Stow Wengenroth: City Street, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
12×9IN.
$5,500
City Street
Print by Muirhead Bone: Rainy Night in Rome, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
12×9IN.
$5,500
Rainy Night in Rome
Pastel By William Partridge Burpee: [blue Rocky Mountain] At Childs GalleryQuick View
12×10IN.
$5,500
[Blue Rocky Mountain]
Print by Gerald K. Geerlings: Grand Canal, America, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
11×8IN.
$5,000
Grand Canal, America
Drawing by Adolf Dehn: Night in East Waterville [Minnesota], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
15×22IN.
$4,800
Night in East Waterville [Minnesota]
Print By Rockwell Kent: Northern Night (n By E) At Childs GalleryQuick View
5×8IN.
$4,500
Northern Night (N by E)
Painting By Arthur Polonsky: Sentinal At Childs GalleryQuick View
25×17IN.
$4,000
Sentinal
Drawing by Leo Meissner: Winter Moon, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
16×12IN.
$3,200
Winter Moon
Print By Letterio Calapai: Nocturne Ii At Childs GalleryQuick View
13×10IN.
$2,750
Nocturne II
Painting by Samuel W. Griggs: [Mount Washington Winter Scene], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
12×9IN.
$2,200
[Mount Washington Winter Scene]
Print by Muirhead Bone: Windy Night, Stockholm, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
11×7IN.
$2,000
Windy Night, Stockholm
Print by Stow Wengenroth: The House [East Port, Maine], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
8×12IN.
$2,000
The House [East Port, Maine]
Print by Armin Landeck: Manufacturers Trust (2nd State of Manhattan Nocturne), available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
718×1178IN.
$1,800
Manufacturers Trust (2nd State of Manhattan Nocturne)
Drawing by Charles Livingston Bull: Like Some Vampire Shape from the Pit, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
18×12IN.
$1,800
Like Some Vampire Shape from the Pit
Print by Félix Buhot: Les Noctambules, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
3×4IN.
$1,800
Les Noctambules
Print By Benton Spruance: Church At Night At Childs GalleryQuick View
13×11IN.
$1,600
Church at Night
Print by Hellmuth Weissenborn: [Green Full Moon], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
10×12IN.
$1,400
[Green Full Moon]
Print by Harry Sternberg: Blast Furnace #1, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
11×8IN.
$1,200
Blast Furnace #1
Print by Frederick Mershimer: Empire State, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
12×8IN.
$1,200
Empire State
Print by Frederick Mershimer: Passage, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
7×11IN.
$1,200
Passage
Print by Hellmuth Weissenborn: [Green Moon], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
6×8IN.
$1,000
[Green Moon]
Print by Arthur Werger: The World Below, available at Childs Gallery, BostonQuick View
1512×1134IN.
$850
The World Below
Print by Ernest Fiene: Deep Winter, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
15×20IN.
$850
Deep Winter
Print By Jean Michel Mathieux Marie: Le Dome, Venice At Childs GalleryQuick View
8×7IN.
$850
Le Dome, Venice
Print by Bernard Brussel-Smith: City Scene II or Street Scene II or Fortieth Street [New Yor, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
5×6IN.
$650
City Scene II or
Print by Hellmuth Weissenborn: [Miniature Blue Canoe], represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
5×7IN.
$600
[Miniature Blue Canoe]
Print by Joseph Margulies: A Bit of Bruges or Bruges Palaces (Nocturne), represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
7×9IN.
$550
A Bit of Bruges
Print By Carol Wax: Foggy Night At Childs GalleryQuick View
4×6IN.
$450
Foggy Night
Print by Adolf Dehn: In the Moonlight, represented by Childs GalleryQuick View
13×11IN.
$400
In the Moonlight
Print By Carol Wax: Moondance At Childs GalleryQuick View
7×5IN.
$300
Moondance
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