Freed Maurice (American 1911-1981) ’’Slave Auction’’ oil on board signed
Artist biography:
Maurice Freed, a native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania and a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art, lived and painted in Philadelphia
during most of his life. At the age of nineteen, he won a scholarship to the Cape School of Art in Provincetown where he studied with
Henry Hensche, Morris Davidson, and Albert Alcalay. At the age of twenty two, his talents were recognized when he was invited to
Chicago to become Art Director of Esquire Magazine.
Following his early professional success at Esquire and as a contributor to the New Yorker, Holiday and Fortune magazines, and after
fourteen years of operating a prosperous advertising art service, Freed turned to his real love, the fine arts. He gained international
recognition from his year long sojourn in France in 1960, being featured in a lead article in Information Artistique (Paris, 1961) and
upon his return, in The American Artist (New York, 1962). Extensive travel throughout his life brought to Freed’s work an extraordinary
diversity of subject matter and mood.
The work of Maurice Freed is represented in private collections here and abroad. He was the recipient of many awards and prizes,
Pitz, Henry. February 1962. “Maurice Free, painter.” American Artist. Pages 42-47 (continued p. 67).
Unit Dimensions: 24’’ x 30’’

good condition