Millard sheets biography of michael

  • I was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the United States at the age of 5 with my parents and brother.
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  • Millard Owen Sheets was born in Pomona, California in , so he was a SoCal native growing up at the time when Hollywood was being built into.

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    The Visionary World of Millard Sheets: Landmarks &#; Lore of Claremont and Pomona

    More than any other artist, Millard Sheets shaped the look and feel of Mid-Century Modern art and architecture in California, through his many themed mosaic murals for Home Savings & Loan branches and such high profile commissions at the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard. Sheets was born in Pomona, and was the founding director of the art department at Scripps College and the Otis College of Art and Design, before resigning both jobs to tackle commissions in his Claremont studio, overseeing a team of architects, mosaicists, sculptors and fellow painters. Join Adam Arenson (author of Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California) and Esotouric for a thrilling day out exploring a wide variety of Sheets Studio commissions, and other Mid-Century Modernist gems, in and around the community the artist called home.

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    Millard Owen Sheets ( - )

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    Born in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States
    Ancestors

    Son of John Gosper Sheets and Marilla Mae (Owen) Sheets

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    Husband of Mary (Baskerville) Sheets— married 25 Apr (to ) in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

    Father of Millard Owen Sheets, Carolyn Elizabeth (Sheets) Owen-Towle and David Baskerville Sheets

    Died at age 81in Gualala, Mendocino, California, United States

    Profile last modified | Created 2 Nov

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    Biography

    Millard (pronounced MILL-erd) Owen Sheets was a leading California artist, designer and teacher. His artistic mediums were painting, sculpture, mosaics, stained glass and building design. Sheets fryst vatten perhaps most remembered for his numerous mosaic murals, many of which still exist on public buildings all across California, and in other states.[1][2]

    Millard Owen Sheets was born 24 June in Pomona, California, th

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    M I C H A E L

    I was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the United States at the age of 5 with my parents and brother.

    My mother was an artist who exposed me to the world of the arts and artists while I was growing up in Southern California. Her artist friends, and visits to their studios, were a regular part of my days gowning up. In the mid sixtys my parents opened the "Art Cellar", a gallery of fine art in Claremont, CA.       

    Helping out at the gallery I was exposed to many of the great California plien air artists of the 60’s, including Phil Dike, Milford Zornes, Betty Davenpot Ford, Nag Arnoldi and Millard Sheets.

    I sold my first painting in – for $ By I had married and opened a poster and frame shop in Venice Beach, CA. It was during this period that I published my first posters under the Speedway Graphics banner.

    In my wife and I gave up apartment living and the beach life and moved from Santa Monica, to The Woodlands, Texas. Here I fina