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Millard Sheets, American, 1907 - 1989

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1938

Transparent watercolor over charcoal indications on very heavy wove [Arches] paper

Image: 16 × 22 3/4 in. (40.6 × 57.8 cm)

Frame: 23 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (59.7 × 77.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip H. Greene, in memory of his wife and co-collector, Marjorie B. Greene

2007.6.12

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left, in graphite: Millard Sheets; numbered, lower right corner: II WATERMARK: Embossed oval watermark: VERITABLE PAPER / FIN; also ARCHES / FRANCE

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ENGS 7.02, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2019

COLT 10.21, Coming to America, Gerd Gemunden, Spring 2019

ENGS 7.02, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2020

Exhibition History

American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

California Style: 1930s and 40s, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, August 21-Sept. 28, 1997; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, Dec. 13, 1997-March 22, 1998; Ventura Museum of History and Art, Ventura, CA, April 3-June 14, 1998. Catalogue by Sebastopol Center for the Arts and curator David Stary-Sheets, Sebastopol, CA: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 1997, ill. in color, p. 10, fig. 18.

Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.

Millard Sheets: The Early Years 1920-1940, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California, February 14-May 30, 2010.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 147, no. 119.

"Migratory Labor: A Social Problem." Fortune Magazine. Volume XIX, Number 4, April 1939: Pg. 95.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p. 42, no. 5.

Catalina E. Gorla, Coastline to Skyline: The Vitality of the "California Style", The Collegiate Journal of Art, Spring 2008, Volume IV, 2008, pp. 124-125, ill. p. 125.

Gordon T. McClelland, Millard Sheets: The Early Years (1926-1944), Newport Beach, California: The California Regionalist Art: Information Center, 2010, p. 122-123, ill. p. 123.

Paul J. Karlstrom, The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, American Art Review, Volume XX, Number 6, Leawood, Kansas: American Arts Media, Inc., November-December, 2008, ill. p. 126.

Provenance

Stary-Sheets Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California; sold to Philip H. Greene (1925-2014), February 22, 1998; given to present collection, 2007.

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