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- Famed watercolor artist Millard Sheets, 81
Associated Press
Gualala, Mendocino Co. – Millard Owen Sheets, a well-known artist who helped develop the California school of watercolor, died at his home on the Mendocino coast. He was 81.
Mr. Sheets, who had been ill for several years before his death Friday, was a painter and muralist recognized for his evocative landscapes. His work hangs in 46 museums in 15 states nationwide.
Since he began his career at age 16 with an exhibit at the Laguna Beach Art Association in 1923, Mr. Sheets has made an imprint in the art world with more than 100 murals and mosaics and has designed about 100 buildings.
Mr. Sheets, who graduated in 1939 frpm the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles, served as professor art, then chairman of the art department, at Scripps College in Claremont for 26 years.
Mr. Sheets, who also served as director of the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1950-56, had several books published and worked as a war correspondent for Life Magazine in the India- Burma war from 1943-44.
In the early 1960s, Mr. Sheets traveled to Turkey and the Soviet Union as an art specialist for the U.S. State Department.
His works include “Christ the Teacher” on the library tower at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., 1964; mosaics for the Dome of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C., 1969; mosaic façade at the Detroit Public Library, 1960; and two tile murals-façade in the Los Angeles City Hall, 1972.
One of his final works was a large painted mural for the Civic Center in Lubbock, Texas.
Mr. Sheets had one-man art shows in Milch Galleries, New York, 1935-36, London Gallery of Arthur Tooth and Sone, 1964; Monterey, Mexico, 1971; Kennedy Galleries, new York 1978, ’80, ’82; and a retrospective show at the Stary-Sheets Art Gallery in his hometown of Gualala in 1987.
Mr. Sheets’ published books include “West African Journal’, 1980; and “Your Drawing is a Measure of Your Mind, “ 1983. A 1983 biography, “Millard Sheets” One Man Renaissance,” was written by Janice Lovoos.
Mr. Sheets is survived by his wife, Mary; and four children, Owen Sheets of Hilo, Hawaii; Carolyn Owen-Towle of San Diego; David Stary-Sheets of Gualala; and Tony Sheets of Sebastopol.
The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California. Sunday, 2 April 1989.
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