Hog Lot
1932
Millard Owen Sheets
American, 1907-1989
American Art
Millard Sheets made this work on the spot while traveling through the Kansas Dust Bowl. (Many midwestern farmlands were destroyed by drought and dust storms in the 1930s, and Sheets stated that “the bleakness in the painting is symbolic of the period.”) With his American subject matter and skillful handling of the medium, the California-based artist earned national acclaim for his watercolors at the time, with critics regularly comparing him to the celebrated masters Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper.
- Maker/Artist
- Sheets, Millard
- Classification
- Watercolor
- Formatted Medium
- Watercolor over graphite on off-white, very thick, rough-textured wove paper
- Medium
- watercolor, over, graphite, off-white, very, thick, rough-textured, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- 15 7/8 x 23 in. (40.3 x 58.4 cm) Frame: 28 x 36 x 1 1/2 in. (71.1 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 35.912
- Credit Line
- John B. Woodward Memorial Fund
- Exhibitions
- Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection, Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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