Oral history interview with Millard Sheets
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 8 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 16 digital wav files. Duration is 8 hr., 13 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Chamberlin, F. Tolles (Frank Tolles), 1873-1961
label: Names
content: Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978
label: Names
content: Hatfield, Dalzell, 1893-1963
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content: Lebrun, Rico, 1900-1964
label: Names
content: Modra, Theodore B., 1873-1930
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- California
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content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- California
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
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content: Designers -- California -- Interviews
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content: Educators -- California -- Interviews
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content: Muralists -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Watercolorists -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Millard Sheets (1907-1989) was a painter, educator, designer, and mural painter from California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 167 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: 16 Items (16 digital wav files. Duration is 8 hr., 13 min.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986 October-1988 July
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sheets86
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Millard Sheets conducted 1986 October-1988 July, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Sheets speaks of his childhood and early education; attending Chouinard Art Institute and being influenced by instructor F. Tolles Chamberlin; teaching at Scripps College Foundation of Art from 1931 to 1955; the beginnings of the California Watercolor Society; his painting career; his thoughts on Southern California Modernism; the growth and development of California art; artists including Lorser Feitelson and Rico Lebrun; designing forty buildings for Howard Ahmanson from the 1950s through the 1970s; his relationships with art critics; his involvement with architecture and design; and his philosophy as an art teacher. He recalls Theodore Modra and Dalzell Hatfield.