Hollywood Millard Sheets

The exhibition is sponsored by claremont eye associates maria zornes and hal baker tony and flower sheets and by tom carolyn sheets owen towle.

Hollywood millard sheets.

Many of his large scale building mounted mosaics from the mid 20th century are still extant in southern california. Millard sheets s murals and artworks graced the facades and walls of numerous suburban banks in california in the 1950s as well as other buildings. The exhibition millard sheets. 15 x 22 25 inches.

Born in 1907 in pomona sheets graduated from the chouinard art institute in 1929. Hills and horses curated by his son tony sheets will include paintings drawings and lithographs from the years that he lived in padua hills in the 1940s 60s and beyond. Of the many mural bearing bank buildings that millard sheets designed for home savings and loan the one at the corner of sunset and vine in hollywood was one of his favorites. Millard owen sheets june 24 1907 march 31 1989 was an american artist teacher and architectural designer who was one of the earliest of the california scene painting artists and helped define the art movement.

Tenement flats by millard sheets american art. Millard sheets tenement flats these ramshackle tenements were home to poor families in the bunker hill neighbourhood of downtown los angeles during the great depression. It s sheets week and we re celebrating millard sheets the artist and architectural designer who dotted southern california with beautiful modern home savings bank branches now mostly chases. It is also one of the best known today standing as sheets put it like a little special plum among much larger buildings with much less visual character.

22 x 30 inches. 22 x 31 inches oil on canvas signed lower right. California blossom time 1930. He became a nationally renowned and highly influential artist with the california school of painting.