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CHILDS GALLERY Established 1937 PRINT EXHIBITIONS 169 Newbury Street EXHIBITION NEW HOURS: Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Tuesday – Friday, 9 am to 6 pm Saturday & Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm 617-266-1108 Robert S. Neuman: Sixty Years in Paint Variations on a Theme: The Modern Cut: [email protected] Works by Herbert Barnett Woodcuts & Linocuts since 1900 SEPTEMBER 27 – NOVEMBER 12, 2017 AUGUST 24 – OCTOBER 22, 2017 NOVEMBER 2 – DECEMBER 24, 2017 Variations on a Theme: Works by Herbert Barnett August 24 – October 22, 2017 Robert S. Neuman: Sixty Years in Paint September 27 – November 12, 2017 The Modern Cut: Woodcuts & Linocuts since 1900 Childs Gallery is proud to present Robert S. Neuman: Sixty Years November 2 – December 24, 2017 in Paint, an exhibition celebrating the prolific career of American Henry Botkin: From Realism to Abstraction artist Robert S. Neuman (1926-2015). Over the course of November 16, 2017 – January 7, 2018 1 more than six decades, Neuman—a second-generation Abstract Donald De Lue: The Eternal Quest Expressionist—bridged the gap between gestural and geometric January 2 – February 25, 2018 abstraction. His richly pigmented paintings fuse form, content, La Serenissima: Views of Venice January 11 – March 11, 2018 and vibrant color to explore the visual language of landscape, voyage, and globalization. Neuman’s work is in numerous public collections including Mill Ruin (East Princeton, Massachusetts), 1960-62 childsgallery.com Watercolor and charcoal 1 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, 17 3/4 X 23 1/2 INCHES New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; DeCordova $1,800 Robert S. Neuman (American, 1926-2015), Small Landscape, 1966, Oil on French linen, 24 x 24 inches (detail). Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Worcester Art This small, intimate exhibition brings together 2017 FALL/WINTER Museum, Worcester, MA; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1 Cambridge, MA, and many others. prime examples of mid-century modernist Herbert Leonard Beaumont (British, 1891-1986) 2 Barnett’s oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings. The Rush Hour, 1933 Childs Gallery’s show coincides with a major retrospective Color linocut exhibition of Neuman’s work, Impulse and Discipline: 60 Years Organized thematically, the exhibition provides a 8 X 11 1/4 INCHES unique opportunity to explore the variation of Barnett’s $9,500 of Painting by Robert S. Neuman, 1950 – 2010, at Keene subjects across multiple mediums. The show focuses State College’s Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, on view from 2 on a few of Barnett’s most familiar subjects, including Milton Avery September 22 through December 6, 2017. (American, 1885-1965) modernist still lifes and New England landscapes. Dancer, 1954 Woodcut Childs Gallery’s show coincides with the exhibition 12 X 9 3/4 INCHES Herbert Barnett: Vermont Life and Landscape, 1940- $10,000 THE BULLETIN 2 1948 at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum, CHILDS GALLERY on view September 26 – December 15, 2017. From the immediacy of German Expressionist woodcuts, to the streamlined geometry of Grosvenor The International Art Fair School linocuts, The Modern Cut showcases for Prints & Editions the relief printmaking techniques of woodcut OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2017 3 4 RIVER PAVILION, JAVITS CENTER, NEW YORK CITY and linocut in the 20th and 21st centuries. The www.printfair.com exhibition includes examples by Milton Avery, Leonard 1 2 3 4 Volume 66 Volume Established 1937 Established Small Mirage Painting, 1966 The Fly, 1961 Vista Del Mar, 1959 Voyage Romanesque, 1967 INK Miami Art Fair Beaumont, Letterio Calapai, Susan Crile, Werner Oil on French linen Oil on French linen Oil on French linen Mixed media on paper DECEMBER 6 – 10, 2017 34 X 37 INCHES 34 X 40 INCHES 40 X 42 INCHES 22 X 29 1/2 INCHES SUITES OF DORCHESTER, MIAMI BEACH, FL Drewes, Paul Endres, Jr., Max Pechstein, David www.inkartfair.com Siqueiros, and Lill Tschudi. childsgallery.com 617-266-1108 childsgallery.com 617-266-1108 CHILDS GALLERY Established 1937 PRINT EXHIBITIONS 169 Newbury Street EXHIBITION NEW HOURS: Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Tuesday – Friday, 9 am to 6 pm Saturday & Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm 617-266-1108 Robert S. Neuman: Sixty Years in Paint Variations on a Theme: The Modern Cut: [email protected] Works by Herbert Barnett Woodcuts & Linocuts since 1900 SEPTEMBER 27 – NOVEMBER 12, 2017 AUGUST 24 – OCTOBER 22, 2017 NOVEMBER 2 – DECEMBER 24, 2017 Variations on a Theme: Works by Herbert Barnett August 24 – October 22, 2017 Robert S. Neuman: Sixty Years in Paint September 27 – November 12, 2017 The Modern Cut: Woodcuts & Linocuts since 1900 Childs Gallery is proud to present Robert S. Neuman: Sixty Years November 2 – December 24, 2017 in Paint, an exhibition celebrating the prolific career of American Henry Botkin: From Realism to Abstraction artist Robert S. Neuman (1926-2015). Over the course of November 16, 2017 – January 7, 2018 1 more than six decades, Neuman—a second-generation Abstract Donald De Lue: The Eternal Quest Expressionist—bridged the gap between gestural and geometric January 2 – February 25, 2018 abstraction. His richly pigmented paintings fuse form, content, La Serenissima: Views of Venice January 11 – March 11, 2018 and vibrant color to explore the visual language of landscape, voyage, and globalization. Neuman’s work is in numerous public collections including Mill Ruin (East Princeton, Massachusetts), 1960-62 childsgallery.com Watercolor and charcoal 1 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, 17 3/4 X 23 1/2 INCHES New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; DeCordova $1,800 Robert S. Neuman (American, 1926-2015), Small Landscape, 1966, Oil on French linen, 24 x 24 inches (detail). Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Worcester Art This small, intimate exhibition brings together 2017 FALL/WINTER Museum, Worcester, MA; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1 Cambridge, MA, and many others. prime examples of mid-century modernist Herbert Leonard Beaumont (British, 1891-1986) 2 Barnett’s oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings. The Rush Hour, 1933 Childs Gallery’s show coincides with a major retrospective Color linocut exhibition of Neuman’s work, Impulse and Discipline: 60 Years Organized thematically, the exhibition provides a 8 X 11 1/4 INCHES unique opportunity to explore the variation of Barnett’s $9,500 of Painting by Robert S. Neuman, 1950 – 2010, at Keene subjects across multiple mediums. The show focuses State College’s Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, on view from 2 on a few of Barnett’s most familiar subjects, including Milton Avery September 22 through December 6, 2017. (American, 1885-1965) modernist still lifes and New England landscapes. Dancer, 1954 Woodcut Childs Gallery’s show coincides with the exhibition 12 X 9 3/4 INCHES Herbert Barnett: Vermont Life and Landscape, 1940- $10,000 THE BULLETIN 2 1948 at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum, CHILDS GALLERY on view September 26 – December 15, 2017. From the immediacy of German Expressionist woodcuts, to the streamlined geometry of Grosvenor The International Art Fair School linocuts, The Modern Cut showcases for Prints & Editions the relief printmaking techniques of woodcut OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2017 3 4 RIVER PAVILION, JAVITS CENTER, NEW YORK CITY and linocut in the 20th and 21st centuries. The www.printfair.com exhibition includes examples by Milton Avery, Leonard 1 2 3 4 Volume 66 Volume Established 1937 Established Small Mirage Painting, 1966 The Fly, 1961 Vista Del Mar, 1959 Voyage Romanesque, 1967 INK Miami Art Fair Beaumont, Letterio Calapai, Susan Crile, Werner Oil on French linen Oil on French linen Oil on French linen Mixed media on paper DECEMBER 6 – 10, 2017 34 X 37 INCHES 34 X 40 INCHES 40 X 42 INCHES 22 X 29 1/2 INCHES SUITES OF DORCHESTER, MIAMI BEACH, FL Drewes, Paul Endres, Jr., Max Pechstein, David www.inkartfair.com Siqueiros, and Lill Tschudi. childsgallery.com 617-266-1108 childsgallery.com 617-266-1108 EXHIBITION GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS EXHIBITION FALL/WINTER 2017 Henry Botkin: La Serenissima: From Realism to Abstraction Views of Venice NOVEMBER 16, 2017 – JANUARY 7, 2018 JANUARY 11 – MARCH 11, 2018 Henry Botkin’s oeuvre can be defined by three Few places in the world have sparked the collective artistic distinct styles—School of Paris Modernism, Cubism, consciousness as has Venice. From its earliest moments as a and Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition leads critical hub of trade between the East and West, to its artistic 2 the viewer through each phase of Botkin’s work from 1 flourishing in the Renaissance and Baroque eras, to its instrumental realism to abstraction. role in Contemporary Art, the ethereal beauty of Venice continues to 3 After his studies at the Massachusetts College of Art, inspire and delight the eye. Botkin moved to New York City and by the 1920s, with La Serenissima: Views of Venice will feature paintings, prints, and the assistance of his cousins George and Ira Gershwin, photography of Venice from the 19th Century to today. Many of 4 1 had established a studio in Paris. Throughout the 1920s 1 these works reflect the enduring influence of one of Venice’s most and 30s, his work was heavily influenced by artists of famous portrayers, James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). the School of Paris, including Jules Pascin, Marc Chagall, Whistler’s atmospheric interpretations capture “the essence of the and Chaim Soutine. By 1930, Botkin had returned to 5 crumbling city: its texture, its light, its distinctive enclosed streets 6 New York and in the late 1930s began to develop a new and piazze, and its unique ‘floating’ quality.” Cubist approach to his painting. By the late 1940s, Venice—known as La Serenissima, The Most Serene—continues to 7 8 Botkin was fully immersed in the Abstract Expressionist fascinate and inspire generations of artists.