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Millard Sheets

Millard Owen Sheets (1907 - 1989) was active/lived in California.  Millard Sheets is 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 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 designer, and maker of tapestries and mosaics*.  Projects included the mosaic dome and chapel at the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15060 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 7 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 21 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Millard Sheets as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Millard Sheets in 3 of its research Essays. Millard Sheets has 82 artist signature examples available in our database.

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