New mid-century architecture & art tour: The Visionary World of Millard Sheets (Sunday, Jan. 26)

New Tour debuts Sunday, January 26

The Visionary World of Millard Sheets:
Landmarks & Lore of Claremont and Pomona

More than any other artist, Millard Sheets shaped the look and feel of Mid-Century Modern art and architecture in California, through his many themed mosaic murals for Home Savings & Loan branches and such high profile commissions at the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard.

Sheets was born in Pomona, and was the founding director of the art department at Scripps College and the Otis College of Art and Design, before resigning both jobs to tackle commissions in his Claremont studio, overseeing a team of architects, mosaicists, sculptors and fellow painters. Join Adam Arenson (author of Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California) and Esotouric for a thrilling day out exploring a wide variety of Sheets Studio commissions, and other Mid-Century Modernist gems, in and around the community the artist called home.

Stops on the tour include Pomona Mall, Claremont United Church of Christ, The American Museum of Ceramic Art – AMOCA, Sheets Studio Compound and Edward Durrell Stone's Kresge Chapel. Full tour description is here. The cost of your ticket on this full day tour includes a Mexican buffet lunch. We hope you can join us on Sunday, January 26 for a brand new Esotouric adventure.