Mexican Village
Type:Painting
Year:1927
Size:16.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
From the collection of an early Sheets patron in Texas. Clean and gorgeous. 22k carved Mayen Olson frame.
Millard Sheets ART FOR SALE
1907 Pomona, California - 1989 Gualala, California. Known for: Modernist painting-genre-views, horse, coastal.
Born in Pomona, California and living much of his life in Southern California, Millard Sheets earned a reputation as one of the foremost watercolorists of his era. His subjects were landscapes and... Read full biography
Born in Pomona, California and living much of his life in Southern California, Millard Sheets earned a reputation as one of the foremost watercolorists of his era. His subjects were landscapes and scenes of urban and rural people in humble living circumstances. He said that he was willing to be... Read full biography
Born in Pomona, California and living much of his life in Southern California, Millard Sheets earned a reputation as one of the foremost watercolorists of his era. His subjects were landscapes and scenes of urban and rural people in humble living circumstances. He said that he was willing to be called a regionalist only if you accepted the idea that his work embraced a large region. It is said that of all the Depression-era artists, he was the most representative of the California School*, part... Read full biography
Born in Pomona, California and living much of his life in Southern California, Millard Sheets earned a reputation as one of the foremost watercolorists of his era. His subjects were landscapes and scenes of urban and rural people in humble living circumstances. He said that he was willing to be called a regionalist only if you accepted the idea that his work embraced a large region. It is said that of all the Depression-era artists, he was the most representative of the California School*, part of the American Scene* movement. According to Susan Anderson in her essay, 'California Holiday', for American Art Review, June 2002, he was a "colorful, larger-than-life character possessing equal measures of talent and ambition" and he "set the... Read full biography
Born in Pomona, California and living much of his life in Southern California, Millard Sheets earned a reputation as one of the foremost watercolorists of his era. His subjects were landscapes and scenes of urban and rural people in humble living circumstances. He said that he was willing to be called a regionalist only if you accepted the idea that his work embraced a large region. It is said that of all the Depression-era artists, he was the most representative of the California School*, part of the American Scene* movement. According to Susan Anderson in her essay, 'California Holiday', for American Art Review, June 2002, he was a "colorful, larger-than-life character possessing equal measures of talent and ambition" and he "set the direction for the school.". In addition to having painting talents, he was an architect, mural designe... Read full biography
Millard Sheets - Art for Sale (4 available)
Drying the Nets
Type:Painting
Year:1963
Size:22.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Left
Ginger Lei
Type:Print/graphic art
Year:circa 1950
Size:11.50" x 4.25"
Medium:Woodblock
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Ginger Lei, linoleum block print circa 1950s, Archivally framed in a superb, genuine curly Koa wood frame and ready for hanging. --- Millard Sheets (1907-1989) enrolled at the Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles after graduating from Pomona High School. He was a pupil of Chamberlin, Hinkle and Theodore Modra. After traveling and painting in Europe, he taught at Chouinard from 1929-34 and in 1948. During the 1920s and 1930s he came into national focus with his regionalist scenes similar to those of Thomas Hart Benton, mostly landscapes inspired by California and his world travels. Sheets was an art professor and director at Scripps College from 1932-55 and then spent six years as director of the Otis Art Institute.
Descending Flight
Type:Painting
Size:21.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Left