page_title: Millard Sheets
section_title: Other notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Millard Sheets / Other notable works
caption_attribution_description: English: Tenement Flats by Millard Sheets, 1933-1934. Hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
context_page_description: Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer, who was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists. Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California.
context_section_description: (1934) Southern California landscape – Dining room wall painting for homeowners Fred H. and Bessie Ranke in the Hollywood Hills, moved in 2014 to the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA.
  (1934) Tenement Flats - A painting in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum done during the Depression for the Public Works of Art Project and chosen to hang in the White House to show President Roosevelt's commitment to the arts and the American people.
  (1939) Early California - Three relief panels, stainless steel and enamel, installed at Mark Keppel High School, Alhambra, California
  (1943) The Negro's Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of America - murals on first floor of the Main Interior Building, 1849 C St. NW, Washington, DC
  (1961) Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, designed and completed in 1961.  For decades the building was considered "one of Los Angeles's most notorious real estate white elephants."   Though largely vacant since 1994, it was used as a location for the 2004 adventure film National Treasure starring Nicolas Cage, concerning a fictional long-running Masonic conspiracy.  It was refurbished in 2016 to house the Marciano Art Foundation museum.
  (1961) Murals (one 24 ft., one 36 ft.) for the Palomare Room restaurant in Buffums department store, Pomona Mall in Sheets’ native Pomona, portraying early Spanish settlement of the Pomona Valley. Sheets also designed the pedestrian mall itself.
  (1963) Three Scenes From Shakespeare - A building-mounted mosaic of three vignettes from Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth, Garrison Theater, Scripps College, Claremont, California
  (1964) Word of Life mural - A large mural on the side of the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Commonly known among football fans as Touchdown Jesus because of its depiction of Jesus with upraised arms, similar to the official's signal for a touchdown.
caption: Tenement Flats at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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