“‘I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now,’ Howard Ahmanson said to Sheets in 1953, offering him the chance to design the Home Savings look.” Adam Arenson, history professor and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Manhattan College has written extensively about Sheets and shared this quote with KCET as he offered his list of Sheets’s top ten public art projects, which includes such iconic murals as the “Word of Life” mural (Touchdown Jesus) for Notre Dame and “River of Knowledge” for the Detroit Public Library. Working out of his studio in Claremont, California until his retirement in 1980, Sheets is perhaps best known however for his extensive work for Ahmanson and Home Savings. Arenson says he has identified 168 Home Savings art pieces coming from Sheets Studio and this piece for the former Home Savings location at Harbor and Katella in Anaheim is a classic example, set at an angle facing a major intersection and telling a detailed history of the community served by the bank. @adamarenson @kcet