I have had a chance to rearrange the website.
The list of artworks commissioned by Home Savings of America for its bank branches — murals, mosaics, sculpture and more — plus other work by Millard Sheets and his studiomates has been updated here.
Please keep up the efforts!
I just discovered your interesting site and can provide some info on the Sherman Oaks Home Savings and Loan art. My brother, Steven Rogers, was commissioned to make these in 1989. They are terra cotta clay tiles ( approx. 2’x 2′ each ) and do indeed represent early California.
Also, if you are interested in other large commissioned art works in the Los Angeles area, check out the metropolitan water district headquarters building in L.A., next to the train station downtown. Steve made 2 large terra cotta murals, each 12’x 18′ overall, which are mounted on each side to the entrance. This building, and the artwork, were completed around 1989. Absolutely wonderful murals depicting life as sustained by the delivery of water to the Los Angeles basin from the Hoover Dam. Feel free to email me with any questions. Dennis
Thanks for your comment; I will be in touch.
I recently came into possession of a framed painting that bore a Home Savings and Loan inventory tag #70666
It is a large desert landscape painted by Michael Schofield, a California based artist. It is titled “Afternoon Desert”. It appears to be acrylic on a textured woven base media… Possibly art board
There is a tag that associates the date of January 19 1982 with either it’s acquisition or framing
Simple wooden frame, with glass. by Mirzelle, Culver City, CA. Frame dimensions 36 x 47 in.
I would be interested if there had been documented collaboration / association between the artist and Mr. Sheets Studio.
Home Savings was dedicated to displaying artwork in its branches — but a framed work after 1980 would simply be another artist who they bought work from, without a connection to Millard Sheets and the studio.