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MILLARD SHEETS   (1907-1989)
Painter, watercolorist, printmaker, mosaic artist, and teacher, Millard Sheets worked in Southern California. He attended the Chouinard Art institute and studied with F. Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle. As a teenager he was elected to membership in the prestigious California Water Color Society.
In addition to the Chouinard Art Institute he taught at the Otis Art Institute (eventually becoming director) and Scripps College. During the Depression, with Edward Bruce, he administered the Public Works of Art Project; during World War II he was an artist-correspondent for Life magazine and the United States Army Air Forces in India and Burma.
The lithograph Family Flats, 1934, draws on his painting Tenement Flats, also 1934, that once hung in the White House office of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
An impression of Family Flats was featured in True Grit, American Prints from 1900 to 1950, at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from October 15, 2019, to January 19, 2020.


Family Flats, 1935