What is Millard Sheets?
{{Infobox artist | bgcolour = | name = Millard Sheets | image = Millard Owen Sheets.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Millard Owen Sheets by permission from [http://www.CalART.com CalART.com] | birth_name = Millard Owen Sheets | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|6|24|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Pomona, California]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|3|31|1907|6|24|mf=y}} | death_place = Gualala, California, U.S. | nationality = [[United States|American]] | field = Painting, sculpture, mosaics | training = Chouinard Art Institute | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} '''Millard Owen Sheets''' (June 24, 1907 – March 31, 1989) was an [[United States|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. ==Early life and education== Millard Sheets was born June 24, 1907, and grew up in the Pomona Valley, east of [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Artists: Millard Sheets|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/millard-sheets-4410|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kendall|first=John|date=1989-04-02|title=Millard Owen Sheets, 81; Artist, Designer and Teacher|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-02-mn-1343-story.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> He is the son of John Gosper Sheets and (1878 – 1947) and Marilla Mae Owen (1883 – 1907).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ancestors.familysearch