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.