Bernard Childs
1910–1985

Introduction

Bernard Childs (1910–1985) was an artist who worked in Paris and New York. He was primarily a painter and printmaker, and pioneered the direct engraving of metal plates with power tools. As a kind of counterpoint to his many-layered work, which is often symbolic and a fusion of abstraction and figuration, in 1959 he also started painting portraits. Childs' formal interests were line and space, light and color, and the dialogue of contrasting elements.

Wikidata identifier

Q822346

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Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, painter, sculptor

ULAN identifier

500010668

Names

Bernard Childs

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