April 17, 2024
MILLARD SHEETS "Black Sand Tahiti" Lithograph limited edition
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MILLARD SHEETS "Black Sand Tahiti" Lithograph limited edition 195/500 - $350 The print itself is 28"w x 20"h and overall 29" x 21". It is beautiful. Millard Sheets was a native California artist and grew up in the Pomona Valley near Los Angeles. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute and studied with F. Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle. While still a teenager, Millard's watercolors were accepted for exhibition in the annual California Water Color Society shows and by nineteen years of age, he was elected into membership. At twenty, even before Sheets had graduated from Chouinard, they hired him to teach watercolor painting while completing other aspects of his art education.. By the early 1930s, Millard Sheets was well on his way to national recognition as a prominent American artist. He was exhibiting works in Paris, New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and many other cities throughout the United States. At home in Los Angeles, Millard Sheets was recognized as the leading figure and driving force behind the California Style watercolor movement. Between 1935 and 1941, the recognition, awards, and Millard's output of high quality art increased. He was mentioned in numerous issues of Art Digest, had a color reproduction in the book Eyes on America, and in
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