- Title
- Screen
- Date Made
- 1930s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on board, wood
- Dimensions
- Open: 88 x 114 x 1 1/2 in. (223.52 x 289.56 x 3.81 cm); Closed: 88 x 18 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (223.52 x 47.94 x 21.59 cm); Display stand: 6 x 107 3/4 x 16 in. (15.24 x 273.69 x 40.64 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2009.63
- Collecting Area
- American Art
- Curatorial Notes
While best known as California’s foremost regionalist painter, Millard Sheets was also a hugely influential teacher and tireless promoter of decorative arts. From 1931 to 1957 he organized exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Fair that introduced broad audiences to local art, design, and craft. This screen functioned as a room divider, embodying his conviction that art should be incorporated directly into architecture. His ideals about integration were later expressed in California’s Home Savings and Loans banks, for which he designed not only the buildings but also the entire decorative schemes, including sculpture, stained glass, mosaics, and murals.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- Copyright
- © Millard Sheets Estate
