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I want buildings that will be exciting seventy five years from now howard ahmanson said to sheets in 1953 offering him the chance to design the home savings look. Millard sheets 1907 1989 millard sheets was a highly influential artist designer and educator who made an indelible impression on the southern california landscape. Millard sheets symphony under the stars hollywood bowl 1956 watercolor on board 20 x 30 inches.

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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. That is quite old but sheets was in the lasting business. 22 x 30 inches. Tenement flats by millard sheets american art.

Born in 1907 in pomona sheets graduated from the chouinard art institute in 1929. 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. He became a nationally renowned and highly influential artist with the california school of painting. The exhibition is sponsored by claremont eye associates maria zornes and hal baker tony and flower sheets and by tom carolyn sheets owen towle.

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. 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. 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. California blossom time 1930.

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. Many of his large scale building mounted mosaics from the mid 20th century are still extant in southern california. The bank branch at sunset and vine is probably one of the most familiar millard sheets buildings to most angelenos it s on a prominent corner still largely intact and has a crazy statue of a. The exhibition millard sheets.

22 x 31 inches oil on canvas signed lower right. 15 x 22 25 inches.