Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats

Millard Sheets

American · 1907–1989 · Painter, Draughtsman

Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer. He was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Millard Sheets, Beneath the neon glow, watercolor on paperBeneath the neon glowBonhams · $52,500≈ £31,146≈ €39,232Sign up to see
  2. Millard Sheets, 'Girl with calabash of fruit', acrylic on canvas'Girl with calabash of fruit'Bonhams · $51,850≈ £35,402≈ €39,117Sign up to see
  3. Millard Sheets, Hidden bay, 1935, watercolor on paperHidden bayBonhams · $35,000≈ £22,326≈ €28,203Sign up to see

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Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer. He was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art movement. Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California. His paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery in Washington D.C.; and the Los Angeles County Museum.

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Born 1907, PomonaDied 1989, GualalaOccupation Painter, DraughtsmanWikidata Q15493742 ↗ULAN 500023740 ↗Museum works 2

Also known as Millard B. Sheets, Millard Owen Sheets

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats
Tenement Flats1933
Smithsonian American Art Museum ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Smithsonian American Art Museum
Millard Sheets, Word of Life
Word of Life1964
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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