Child's Gallery
Child's Gallery was founded in 1937 on Newbury Street in Boston’s Back Bay. According to director Stephanie Bond, the gallery holds one of the largest collections of oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints and sculpture in the United States. Connected well to institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington DC, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, their goal is to collaborate with and service collectors, artists, estates, and corporate clients throughout the country. They are both the brokers and the buyers, with a long lineage of historical clients.
In addition to their impressive collection and services, Childs Gallery has a long history of scholarship. According to their website, the gallery has more than 70 years of gallery publications represented in almost every fine arts library in the country-- "The combination of the breadth of our offerings and depth of expertise – including an extensive in-house research library - has contributed to the longevity of our success, with client service of equal importance." It is with no question that notible collector Thomas Holman chose to sell his Sultry Night lithograph to Child's in 2012.
In 2012, shortly after his purchase, collector Thomas Holman of New York sold Sultry Night to Child's Gallery in Boston. It is likely that the piece was purchased for financial investment, as many other Wood prints were selling for high ticket prices at auctions in the recent time period. For example, Swann Galleries in New York, one of the Sultry Night prints sold for a record $36,000 - the highest priced American art print. For Holman, the timing could not have been more ideal.
Sources:
Stephanie Bond, Child's Gallery
www.childsgallery.com