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".