Artist: Wayne Thiebaud (1920 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Arizona, Wayne Thiebaud first worked in New York City as a sign-painter and cartoonist. He began painting in 1949, using his skills from his former occupations to build an original style of work. He is most famous for his thickly painted canvases of junk food and deserts. However his later work consists of primarily women figures in harsh light with plain backgrounds.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Wayne Thiebaud, Bow Ties, 1990
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Wayne Thiebaud, Steep Street, 1993
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Wayne Thiebaud, Valley Farm, 1986
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Wayne Thiebaud, Display Rows, 1990
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Wayne Thiebaud, Paint Cans, 1990
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Wayne Thiebaud, Eyeglasses, 1994
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Wayne Thiebaud, Lunch, 1967
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Wayne Thiebaud, The Bride, 1951
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Wayne Thiebaud, The Princess, 1955
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Wayne Thiebaud, Two Pair, 1994
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Wayne Thiebaud, Three Streets Down, 1977
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Wayne Thiebaud, Bowls, circa 1960 - 1980
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Wayne Thiebaud, Untitled (cow in landscape), 20th century
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Wayne Thiebaud, Working proof 2 for Eight Dogs, 1990
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Wayne Thiebaud, Van, 1989
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Wayne Thiebaud, Dark Glasses, 1994
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Wayne Thiebaud, Clown, 1979
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Wayne Thiebaud, Triangle Thins, 1971
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Wayne Thiebaud, Cigars, 1979
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Wayne Thiebaud, Down 18th, 1979
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Wayne Thiebaud, Down Mariposa, 1979
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Wayne Thiebaud, Downgrade, 1979
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Wayne Thiebaud, Death and the Maiden, 1951
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Wayne Thiebaud, Barbecue Beefs, 1970
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Wayne Thiebaud, Nickel Machine, 1964
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Wayne Thiebaud, Rose,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Bird,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Daffodil,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Clown,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Downgrade,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Down 18th,
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Wayne Thiebaud, Three Machines , 1963
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Wayne Thiebaud, Beach Glasses, 1994
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Wayne Thiebaud, Night Farm, 1993
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Wayne Thiebaud, Cherries, 1983
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Wayne Thiebaud, Farm Hill, 1991
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Wayne Thiebaud, Eight Lipsticks, 1988
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Wayne Thiebaud, Gum Machine, pl. 9, from the book, Delights, 1964
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Wayne Thiebaud, Dispensers, pl. 8, from the book, Delights, 1964

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (16)
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Corcoran Gallery of Art: Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud
Though best known for his richly painted canvases, Thiebaud also has created a significant body of prints. Since 1964 the artist has produced mor...
California Palace of the Legion of Honor: Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective
Often associated with the so-called Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Thiebaud is perhaps best known for his wry yet carefully studied still-lifes of commonplace objects, such as cakes...
Phillips Collection: Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective
Born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920, Thiebaud began his career as a commercial artist and cartoonist. During the 1960s, his deadpan paintings of food and household goods associated him most closely with the Pop Art ...
Columbia Museum of Art: POP IMACT! From Johns to Warhol
Included in the exhibition, are icons of the '60s by 17 notable artists including Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman, Robert Indiana, Marisol, Edward Ruscha, George Segal and Wayne Thiebau...
Kemper Art Museum: The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration
Focusing on humorous and whimsical work, the exhibition will feature about 45 paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Highlighted artists include Wayne Thiebaud, Elmer Bischoff, David Par...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Roads Taken: 20th-Century Prints and Drawings
The majority of works in the exhibition reflect the artists' social perspective, such as Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's collage drawing commenting on salmon fishing, Kara Walker's "African/American" linocut, and Luis Jimenez's observation on servitude...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
Tirage Gallery: Coast to Coast Exhibit: New Paintings by Tony Peters and John Brosio
Since that time, Peters a prolific young artist has garnered attention for his work, which has drawn favorable comparisons to Edward Hopper’s iconic diners and disenchanted cityscapes. Tony “has become popular among collectors who share his apprec...
Pan American Art Gallery: Works by Raul Diaz, Catherine Maize and Juan Salazar
Recently deceased Mexican artist Juan Salazar unites geometric forms with metaphysical concepts through his multicolored small scale paintings. Acclaimed Argentine artist Raul Diaz creates mystical settings of figurative wonder in textured and pai...
John Natsoulas Gallery: Pat Mahony and Frank Damian: June 2005 Landscape Art Exhibition
No longer considered to be a mid-career artist, Pat Mahony is now an established and well-known painter. Twenty-five years ago her architectural buildings and storefronts gave her international acclaim. For the last fifteen years she has been pr...
John Natsoulas Gallery: Sacramento Valley Landscape Painters
The collection of landscape paintings in the exhibition ranges from the very early works done in the 1930s by artists such as Maynard Dixon and Otis Oldfield, to landscape paintings by contemporary artists that include Gregory Kondos, Wayne Thieb...
Pump House Gallery: Gastrophoria: Charlotte Brisland, Gary McDonald, Janice McNab, Victoria Morton, Neal Rock
Gastrophoria is a group exhibition that reveals an obsession for paint's tactile, synaesthetic and metaphorical qualities in relation to food as demonstrated here by a selection of contemporary artists who take a greedy, quasi-culinary pleasure...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection
For that reason, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is retooling to present "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection" from April 17 – June 20. The 65 works comprising the exhibition celebrate the amazing variety of 20th century art that represents...
Virginia Historical Society: The Virginia Landscape
More than 240 landscape paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, dating from the colonial period to the present, reveal much about Virginia's natural history and the attitudes of its citizens. Initially, the commonwealth was best know...
ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: Cosmic Forces at Play: Mixed media works by Blazin
Blazin continues, "Each image offers a glimpse into an abundantly alive, uncharted universe. It's common for me to combine oils, acrylics, wood, staples, metallic inks, pencils, wire, pastels, and skewers all in one piece. Whether paintings, dra...
Phillips Collection: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January 21, 2001 FUTURE . . . Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Fe
By integrating works from The Phillips Collection into the Tannahill exhibition, Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the similarities and the differ...

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