Startled Birds

 

Millard Owen Sheets

  1907 - 1989 (biography)

c. 1945  

color serigraph 

21 3/16 x 13" image 

pencil, lower right 

44 of 150  

pencil titled and editioned in the lower left 

 

stiff ivory wove 

published 

artist 

16846 

$500.00 

At 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.