More than a Constructive Hobby: The Paintings of Frank Freed

$19.95 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by William A. Camfield (Author) Frank Freed (1906–75) painted vignettes of daily life, ideas, and emotions in relative obscurity for nearly thirty years in a style typically categorized as "naive" or "folk" art. More Than a Constructive Hobby surveys the Houston businessman/artist’s work and shows how it was informed by sophisticated observations and an intense love of literature.Freed was born in San Antonio in 1906, the only child of German-origin Jews, but spent most of his life in Houston. After World War…