Hollywood Millard Sheets

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.

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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. 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. The exhibition millard sheets.

He became a nationally renowned and highly influential artist with the california school of painting. 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. 22 x 31 inches oil on canvas signed lower right. Tenement flats by millard sheets american art.

15 x 22 25 inches. 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. Millard sheets symphony under the stars hollywood bowl 1956 watercolor on board 20 x 30 inches. 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 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. 22 x 30 inches. California blossom time 1930.