Hello again!
With the boxes mostly unpacked and lots of folks away on summer vacations, I am finding a chance to get back to search for the works of the Sheets studio. I have a checklist of about one hundred Millard Sheets news items, tips from readers, and more to follow up, so as I process them there should be lots new on the blog.
Also, I have learned that my paper on these murals and their meaning was accepted for presentation at the Urban History Association’s biennial meeting in Las Vegas, October 21st at 10:30am. (Program here).
Paper proposed for a panel on “Urban Historians and Foundation Myths,” Urban History Association conference, Las Vegas, October 2010
My paper is titled “The Memory of Californios in Nixonland: History in Millard Sheets’s Home Saving Murals,” and will appear as part of two panels on “Urban Historians and Foundation Myths,” alongside work by Bell Clement on Washington, D.C,; David Schley on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; and Bill Issel on San Francisco. I am looking forward to it.
Finally, when I went out to the movies with The Blog’s Partner the other night, we walked right by the exquisite mural at Sunset and Vine (above), and I felt happy once again to be living in LA. I snapped this photo from my newest smartphone, just after sunset.
So watch this space for… weekly?… updates in the months ahead…
I believe I have a source for a definitive list of Home Savings murals. I also have the publicity brochure that Home Savings put out for the Sunset and Vine Branch. That is one of Mllard’s best projects, IMO.
Great! Brian, I have emailed you off-blog as well, and I look forward to seeing those materials.
I have news about the preservation of a 77′-long Sheets Mural in Pomona at the former PFF Bank on Garey. E-mail me to hear more.
Will do!
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