"Millard Sheets? What can you say about Millard Sheets?" Rebecca Schoenkopf wondered recently; the ". . . that hasn't already been said about Thomas Kincaid" was understood. The latest in a long line of Sheets' hangings is on now at Laguna Art Museum and maybe she's right. What can be said about the late watercolorist—bulwark of the California School of painters who came of age in the 1930s—that hasn't been? Bulwark isn't strong enough; he's really more of a keel—but what's left to say about what Sheets said of a now-vanished California? Or what F. Scott Fitzgerald said of the Jazz Age, or what the late Dr. Jonas Salk said of public health, or what Gandhi said about whatever he was on about? Yeah sure, they're a great buncha dead guys; let's move on. Let's talk about Pinochet; he just... More >>>