The item for sale is an oil on canvas landscape
painting of two men cutting grass along a stream using scythes that was created around the middle of the twentieth century by
the American artist Frederick Robbins Childs. The artist studied art in
France at the studio of Andre Lhote, a cubist painter. It is not hard
to see the influence of Lhote in the landscape offered for sale with the
bold colors, dark outlines and spacial layout which is stacked rather
than perspective lines. The subject is depicted as a pair of figures with one standing in water. There are houses painted in the middle of the painting. Childs' work also bears some resemblance to the
mid career work of Conrad Buff with features being represented with
rigid shapes rather than fluid detail. The painting was never framed.
It has probably been in storage since its creation. There are one or
two very minor scratches. Aside from that the painting is clean. The
paint is stable with no losses. The painting was not varnished at any
time. The canvas size is 18" x 24".