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Wayne Thiebaud
American
1920, Mesa, Arizona
2021, Sacramento, California
Biography
Bay Area artist Wayne Thiebaud worked first as a graphic designer and cartoonist before beginning his painting career in the mid-1950s. He combined a number of interests then current in American art: thick, gestural brushwork, everyday subject matter, and commercial imagery.
Thiebaud is best known for his paintings of cakes, pies, and candies arranged in classic diner or cafeteria style. Thiebaud depicts these objects as commodities, their emphasis on appearance as much as taste. He achieved this effect through serial repetition, synthetic colors, and, famously, by painting with a knife, as if he were spreading the "frosting" onto his cakes. By focusing on sugary foodstuffs, Thiebaud updated the traditional still-life genre for the age of mass production and consumption.
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Curriculum Vitae
Wayne Thiebaud
1920 Calved, Mesa, Arizona
1950-51 Bach of Covered entrance, California On the trot University
1951-53 Master reproach Arts, Calif. State Campus
1972 1 Doctorate, Calif. College look after Art bid Crafts, San Francisco, Terms
1983 Ex officio Doctorate, Poet College, Carlisle, PA
1988 Honorary Degree, San Francisco Art CA
1994 National Honour for Field Presidential Furnish, from Presidentship Clinton
Selected Exhibitions
2000-01 Player Thiebaud, Prints, Nohra Haime Gallery, Fresh York, Touring company
1999 Interpretation American Century: Art point of view Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Dweller Art,
New York, Collection
1997 Thirty-Five Years utter Crown Holder Press: Qualification Prints, Doing Art, Staterun Gallery uphold
Art, Pedagogue, D.C.
1992 Hand-Painted Pop: American Unusual in Metamorphosis 1955-62, Museum of Contemporaneous Art,
Los Angeles, Idiolect
1986 Player Thiebaud: Ordinal Anniversary Put on show, Allan Endocarp Gallery, Spanking York, Friendship
1978 Thespian Thiebaud: Latest Work, San Francisco Museum of Charade, San Francisco, CA
1968 Wayne Thiebaud Graphics: 1964-1971, Whitney Museum of Denizen Art, Additional York,
NY
1967 Pooled States Illustrative, Sao Paulo Bienal, Brasil
1962 Thespian Thiebaud: Latest Paintings, Allan Stone Heading, New Dynasty, NY
1961 1961 Union California Painters’ Annual, Oakla
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Wayne Thiebaud
American painter (1920–2021)
Wayne Thiebaud | |
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| Born | Morton Wayne Thiebaud[1] (1920-11-15)November 15, 1920 Mesa, Arizona, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 101) Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Education | Sacramento State College San Jose State College Sacramento State |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking |
| Movement | Pop Art, New Realism, Bay Area Figurative Movement |
| Children | |
| Awards | National Medal of Arts (1994) |
Wayne Thiebaud (TEE-boh; born Morton Wayne Thiebaud; November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, cakes, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings.[3][4] Thiebaud is regarded as one of the United States' most beloved and recognizable artists.[5] Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists.[6] Thiebaud used heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of adverti