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.

22 x 30 inches. He became a nationally renowned and highly influential artist with the california school of painting. Millard sheets 1907 1989 millard sheets was a highly influential artist designer and educator who made an indelible impression on the southern california landscape. 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.

15 x 22 25 inches. California blossom time 1930. 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. 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.

Millard sheets symphony under the stars hollywood bowl 1956 watercolor on board 20 x 30 inches. 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. The exhibition millard sheets. Many of his large scale building mounted mosaics from the mid 20th century are still extant in southern california.

Born in 1907 in pomona sheets graduated from the chouinard art institute in 1929. Tenement flats by millard sheets american art. Millard sheets symphony under the stars hollywood bowl a watercolor on board from 1956 from the hilbert collection is part of the los angeles area scene paintings exhibit at the hilbert. 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.