Vint. Poster Japanese Tea Garden Millard Sheets 1907-89

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Vintage Lithograph Poster of the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California from the Original Painted for United Airlines by Listed Artist Millard Owen Sheets (1907 - 1989) Signed LR Dated 1964 Ready to Frame or Display As-Is Vintage Lithograph Poster Size: Paper: 22" X 28" Image Size: 22" X 16.5" See detailed description below the images Please allow images to serve as part of the description Description: This poster is colorful and beautiful. Artist Biography: Millard Owen Sheets (1907 - 1989) Born in Pomona, California, in 1907, Millard Sheets was a Californian who specialized in depicting the West Coast urban poor in such famous paintings as his Tenement Flats (probably the most significant painting executed in California in the 1930s) currently in the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. His particular use of light and color distinguished him from his East Coast contemporaries. Sheets attended the Los Angeles School of Art as the pupil of F.T. Chamberlain and Clarence Hinkle. After graduating in 1929, he had his first solo exhibition at Dalzell Hatfield Galleries in Los Angeles. Sheets was the director of exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Fair from 1931 to 1959. Sheets served as a war artist for Life magazine, covering the Burma-India front from 1943 to 1944. Upon his read more