1960: TVS’s solo show opens at Galerie de Ville, W. Hollywood.

1960: TVS makes Eldorado Myth 

1960: TVS designs and builds the Tom Van Sant Residence.

NOVEMBER 1960: American Artist publishes an article on Spartacus Drawings.

JULY 9, 1961: An LA Times article on mosaic art includes Fire, Earth, & Water

OCTOBER 1961: TVS participates in the Otis Faculty Art Show.

1961: TVS makes The Inventive Progress of Man.

FALL 1961: TVS uses a new brick carving technique to make Children at Play .

1961–1964: TVS paints cards for McIntosh, Inc.’s “Christmas Artists” series.

1962: TVS meets architect William L. Pereira through college friend Ann Buck, a Pereira employee. He makes a “terrible gaffe,” which he blames on “my inexperience...and Ronny Buck's martinis.” Nonetheless: “a week later, I got a call from Bill Pereira. And he says..."We have this project, and would you please come down to the office and tell us what you think might be done?” [1] Presumably the call concerns the Baldwin Hills Gibraltar Savings & Loan, TVS’s first Pereira project.

MARCH 19–APRIL 9, 1962: TVS’s Spartacus  Drawings are exhibited at Galerie de Ville, W. Hollywood. Comparing concurrent exhibitions for the LA Times, critic Henry J. Seldis offers a sliding scale of worth in relation to representational art. He assigns the middle position to TVS, whom he describes as “a draughtsman of greater facility than profundity, [who] nevertheless transcends the limitations of mere illustration and comes up with a number of very creditable drawings.” [2]