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Millard Sheets, Startled Birds, screenprint
Millard Sheets, Startled Birds, screenprint
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Description
Millard Sheets
(American, 1907-1989)
Startled Birds, circa 1945
screenprint in colors on cream wove paper
printed in seven colors, titled, editioned and signed Startled Birds----96 / 380-----Millard Sheets in pencil to lower edge
21 x 12 1/2in (53 x 32cm)
FootnoteAt his coastal estate, Barking Rocks, in Gualala, California, Sheets built his studio, a museum, a stable for his racehorses, an aviary, and a plant room. He kept a variety of doves, budgerigars, pheasants, roosters and hens. Millard Sheets was one of the artists who used and taught screenprinting after the WPA. This is a large screenprint for the time, depicting multicolored pigeons on a dead tree branch, startled by something and prepared to take flight.
Condition
Matted and framed 31 1/2 x 22 1/2. Very good overall.
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