13 Facts About Millard Sheets

Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer.

Millard Sheets was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art movement.

Millard Sheets's paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery in Washington DC; and the Los Angeles County Museum.

Millard Sheets was born June 24,1907, and grew up in the Pomona Valley, east of Los Angeles.

Millard Sheets attended the Chouinard Art Institute and studied with painters Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle.

In May 1927, Sheets exhibited twelve of his landscapes and seascapes oil paintings at the Ebell Club in Pomona.

Millard Sheets was exhibiting in Paris, New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Houston, St Louis, San Antonio, San Francisco, Washington DC, Baltimore, and many other cities throughout the United States.

Millard Sheets directed the art exhibition at the Los Angeles County Fair for many years and brought world-class work to Southern California.

In 1953, Millard Sheets was appointed director of Otis Art Institute.

Millard Sheets resigned his teaching position at Scripps College and established the Millard Sheets Studio in Claremont, California, employing a series of artists.

Millard Sheets produced these untitled mosaics as commercial commissions that are considered official public art, and in the absence of a formal Millard Sheets Studio title they are titled by their images or theme.

Mosaic murals, bronze sculptures, and stained glass designed by the Millard Sheets Studio were placed at scores of bank branches throughout California.

Millard Sheets died on March 31,1989, at his home in Anchor Bay in Mendocino County, California, after a long illness.