New home finally found for Millard Sheets' historic Rose Parade mural

PASADENA - A classic 1963 mural of the first Rose Parade painted by famed Claremont artist Millard Sheets is coming home.

More than two years after it was taken down from the former Home Savings lobby on Colorado Boulevard in a Chase Bank corporate makeover, the entire 50-foot mural is expected to be installed in the lobby of Pasadena City College's Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium this summer.

"It's been restored, and it looks fantastic," said Tony Sheets, Millard Sheets' son, himself a noted artist.

"What we agreed to is I'm gifting it to the city of Pasadena so that ultimately they have control of its whereabouts," he said.

"As it stands right now, it's on a 25-year loan to PCC. They have a terrific

The 1963 mural of the first Rose Parade that famed artist Millard Sheets painted for Home Savings has been restored and will be installed at Pasadena City College's Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium. (Courtesy photo)

The donation's value is being "worked on" by appraisers, Sheets said.

Sheets, who runs the nonprofit Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex in Pomona, said his main concern had been finding a place in Pasadena where the mural could be installed in a single sweep. Anything else was a "deal-breaker," he said.

That's what derailed an earlier proposal to install the colorful mural at the Pasadena Convention Center, Sheets said: the mural would have had to be "broken up in pieces" to accommodate doors, among other problems, he said.

Joe Futtner, PCC's interim dean of visual arts and media studies, said the mural is a great addition to the campus.

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New home finally found for Millard Sheets' historic Rose Parade mural