Background
Sheets, Millard Owen was born on June 24, 1907 in Pomona, California, United States. Son of John Jasper and Millie (Owen) Sheets.
Sheets, Millard Owen was born on June 24, 1907 in Pomona, California, United States. Son of John Jasper and Millie (Owen) Sheets.
Student, Chouinard School Art, 1929; Master of Fine Arts Honorary, Otis The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles, 1963; Doctor of Laws Honorary, Notre Dame U., 1964; Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Otis-Parsons Institute Design, New School Social Research, 1984.
1 son, Millrad Owen. Instructor Chouinard School of Art, 1929-1935, University of Southern California, 1934. Assistant professor Scripps College, since 1931. Exhibited at Carnegie International Exhibition, 1931-1937, Paris Salon, 1929, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1933-1937, National Academy of Design, 1932, Corcoran Gallery, 1936, Whitney.
Museum of America Art, 1935.
Also many one-man exhibitions. Represented permanently in Los Angeles Mas.
White House, Washington, District of Columbia. Whitney Museum of America Art, New New York
Brooklyn Museum of Artist
San Francisco Museum of Artist Dayton The Art Institute of Chicago. Rhode Island School of Design.
Seattle Museum of Artist
San Diego Gallery of Fine Arts. Albany Institute of History and Fine Arts: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Etc. Awards: purchase prize Arizona State Fair, 1928.
Prize ($1,750) Texas National Competition, 1929.
1st prize water color, Ebell Club, Los Angeles, 1930. 1st prize landscape, California State Fair, 1932, 33. 1st prize water color, Los Angeles Museum, 1932.
Member National Academy of Design, National Watercolor Society (president citation distinctive achievements), California Watercolor Society, American Watercolor Society (Dolphin medal 1986), San Diego Watercolor Society.
Married Mary Baskerville, April 25, 1930. Children: Millard Owen, Carlyn Owen Towle, David, John Anthony.