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Millard Sheets (Millard Owen Sheets) was born on 24 June, 1907 in Pomona, California, U.S., is an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer.(1907–1989). Discover Millard Sheets's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June, 1907
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace Pomona, California, U.S.
Date of death 1989
Died Place Anchor Bay, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1907

Millard Owen Sheets (June 24, 1907 – March 31, 1989) was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer.

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

Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California.

His paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery in Washington D.C.; and the Los Angeles County Museum.

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

He is the son of John Sheets.

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

While he was still a teenager, his watercolors were accepted for exhibition in the annual California Water Color Society show.

By the age of 19, he was elected into membership of the California Water Color Society.

The following year he was hired to teach watercolor painting even before his graduation from Chouinard.

1922

The Millard Sheets Art Center first began as the Fine Arts Program of the Los Angeles County Fair in 1922.

1927

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

1929

In 1929 he won second prize in the Texas Wildflowers Competitive Exhibitions, and the generous award allowed Sheets to travel to Europe for a year to further his art education.

1930

By the early 1930s he began to achieve national recognition as a prominent American artist.

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

In Los Angeles he was recognized as the leading figure and driving force behind the California Style watercolor movement.

1935

Between 1935 and 1941, his recognition, awards, and output increased, winning him repeated mention in Art Digest and a color reproduction of his work in the book Eyes on America.

In 1935 at age 28, he was the subject of a monograph published in Los Angeles.

1937

The 20,000+ square-foot art center was built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration to house the program, the first major gallery dedicated solely to art in Los Angeles County.

Each year, the gallery provided visitors to the Los Angeles County Fair with access to art work found throughout the world.

1940

His wartime experience also informed his post-war art for a number of years, where while painting in California and Mexico in the 1940s his work followed dark hues and depressing subjects.

1943

In 1943, he painted four murals at the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C. in the subject of “The Negro’s Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of America.”

His art sales enabled him to travel again to Europe, Central America, and Hawaii, where he painted on location.

Although his watercolor techniques during this period ranged from very tight to very loose, a consistent, he nevertheless exhibited a personal style.

During World War II, he was an artist-correspondent for Life and the United States Army Air Forces in India and Burma.

Many of his works from this period document the scenes of famine, war, and death that he witnessed.

1946

In 1946, he served as a president of the California Water Color Society.

In later years, he worked as an architect, illustrator, muralist, printmaker, and art exhibition juror.

Outside of California, he took on commissions for the Detroit Public Library, the Mayo Clinic, the dome of the National Shrine, the University of Notre Dame library, the Hilton Hotel in Honolulu, and the Mercantile National Bank in Dallas.

1950

After the 1950s his style shifted toward brighter colors and subjects from his worldwide travels.

Watercolor and oil painting were only part of Sheets's art career.

Through his teaching at Chouinard Art Institute, Otis Art Institute, Scripps College and other institutions, hundreds of artists learned how to paint, and were then guided into art careers.

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

During the Great Depression, he joined forces with Edward Bruce to hire artists for the Public Works of Art Project, the first New Deal art project.

In the late 1950s, Sheets was commissioned by Howard F. Ahmanson to design Home Savings Bank branches throughout Southern California that would serve as community landmarks by expressing "community values" or presenting "a celebratory version of the community history."

1953

In 1953, Sheets was appointed director of Otis Art Institute (later named Otis College of Art and Design).

Under his leadership, the school's academic program was restructured to offer BFA and MFA degrees, and a ceramics department was created, headed by Peter Voulkos.

During that time, a ceramics building, gallery, library, and studio wing were completed.

1962

By the time Sheets left Otis in 1962, the form and direction of the college had changed dramatically.

1994

In 1994 the building was dedicated to Millard Sheets, and in 2013 was identified by Fairplex as the home for year-round art education and exhibitions and is currently a part of The Learning Centers at Fairplex.