Tempura or gouache on paper, signed and dated 1992 lower right. Brightly colored, naive style rendering of a mother and child. Double matted behind glass, painted wooden frame.About the Artist: Charles F. Quest wanted to be an artist from when he was a boy and copied old-master paintings onto his bedroom walls. He studied art in Washington and then traveled to France, Spain, and England. Quest taught at the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis for many years, where he learned to make woodcuts and created many images of figures and still lives. He found these “more enjoyable than any other means of expression” (Walker, “Charles Quest: Visions in Copper and Wood,” Summer 2002, Georgetown University Art Collection, online exhibition). He retired in the 1970s and moved to an artists’ colony in Tryon, North Carolina. He enjoyed the solitude of the colony and spent ten or twelve hours everyday painting in his studio.Courtesy St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sight: 12" height, 9" width; frame: 27.75" height, 23.75" width