Millard Sheets - Startled Birds Serigraph c. 1945 - Ltd Ed.

Millard Sheets - Startled Birds Serigraph c. 1945 - Ltd Ed. Signed - 25 x 37 inches framed.

Born in Pomona in 1907, Sheets was graduated from Chouinard School of Art in 1939 and helped guide early development of art programs at Southern California colleges. After joining Scripps College as an art professor, he went on to head the college’s art department for 20 years.

He also served for 18 years as director of art at Claremont Graduate School and director of the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1950-56.

During World War II, Sheets worked as a war correspondent for Life magazine in the India-Burma Theater. In the early 1960s, he traveled to Turkey and the Soviet Union for the U.S. State Department as an American art specialist.

Sheets demonstrated his talents in several mediums beside water colors, including etchings, lithographs, mosaics and frescoes. The buildings he designed include the Scottish Rite Memorial temples in both Los Angeles and San Francisco; the Ahmanson Bank & Trust Co. in Beverly Hills; several Home Savings and Loan Assn. buildings, and the downtown Pomona Mall.

He created murals and mosaics for buildings for more than 30 years. They included the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota; Notre Dame University at South Bend, Ind.; the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and the City Hall Annex in Los Angeles.

His work, produced from age 16, when he exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Assn. in 1923, hangs in 46 museums and 15 states nationwide. He created more than 100 murals and mosaics and designed about 100 buildings during his long career. He was especially known for landscapes of places around the world.