Eliza Tibbets Watering Navel Orange Tree Mosaic

Above the door to Provident Bank (6570 Magnolia Ave., Riverside) at the intersection of Magnolia and Central Avenues, can be found a tryptic of lovely mosaics designed by Millard Sheets.  Sheet's design was converted into the mosaics by Denis O'Connor from Anza, CA.  This is one of the more than 80 mosaics that Sheets originally designed for Home Savings and Loan Buildings throughout California. As described in a Press Enterprise article, "Because of the importance of citrus to early Riverside, the Sheets mural’s central panel depicts Eliza Tibbets watering the parent navel orange tree from her dishpan and standing next to a man who holds a shovel and an orange. The Mission Inn is featured in the background. That panel is flanked by two narrower ones that depict blooming yuccas and a Joshua Tree."