Dimensions: 48.5" L x 32" H
 
Ernest Bradfield Freed, painter, muralist, printmaker, administrator, and teacher, was born on a farm near Rockville, Indiana. He began formal art training at Indiana State Teachers College in 1926, then at University of Illinois. He studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship, then at University of lowa where he earned his M.A. in fresco painting. In 1936 Freed won a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and had his first solo exhibition at the Ferargils Gallery in New York, which included work created during his fellowship. Freed taught at Bradley University and the University of lowa, where he met and studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. At Bradley, as head of the School of Art, he revamped the curriculum to include printmaking and established the Bradley National Print Exhibition. In 1954, he began a twenty-year career as Professor of Art at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles where he developed a studio for oversize color intaglios. As Head of Printmaking, he established another legacy, the National Print Invitational. Freed's work has been extensively exhibited, published and collected, and is represented in the collections of the the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum, UCLA, LACMA, the Met; the Bibliothèque Nationale
in Paris, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. Ernest Freed died in Northridge, California in June of 1974.