{"id":130844,"date":"2016-06-10T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/millard-sheets-the-wizard-of-home-savings-murals.html"},"modified":"2016-06-10T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:21:55","slug":"millard-sheets-the-wizard-of-home-savings-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/millard-sheets-the-wizard-of-home-savings-murals.html","title":{"rendered":"Millard Sheets, the Wizard of Home Savings Murals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Southern California, I always marveled at the lovely and elaborate murals on Home Savings bank buildings. I was always disappointed that my dad worked for other banks, so that we never had any excuse to visit. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a cool article (h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117988773741178276041\" oid=\"117988773741178276041\">Mary Oswell<\/a><\/span>) on the artist behind them (and a lot of similar art). In this era of cheap, cardboard cut-out bank branches, it&#39;s a great reminder of a distant time when banks tried to convey prosperity and class for all their customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/10\/arts\/design\/the-artist-who-beautified-california-banks.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/VELjZOiIe4XO3mvE0qq73ix3gp5F_8lG7xVc--H9QWpCmNETci4LZVz73ew2DE-eRVzedFzQZkE1UIarb2N0qLjf-xAVMEB3mmYHWJz4cj97p3N8nSobndvh-YEVnedhP37xW_PHP13y=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/10\/arts\/design\/the-artist-who-beautified-california-banks.html'>The Artist Who Beautified California Banks<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMillard Sheets&rsquo;s murals and artworks graced the facades and walls of numerous suburban banks in California in the 1950s as well as other buildings.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/63YBWj98d2q'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Southern California, I always marveled at the lovely and elaborate murals on Home Savings bank buildings. I was always disappointed that my dad worked for other banks, so that we never had any excuse to visit. Here&#39;s a cool article (h\/t +Mary Oswell) on the artist behind them (and a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/millard-sheets-the-wizard-of-home-savings-murals.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Millard Sheets, the Wizard of Home Savings Murals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/restoring-sanity-to-the-banking-industry-inconceivable.html","url_meta":{"origin":130844,"position":0},"title":"Restoring sanity to the banking industry? 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