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Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) is a painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, toys and lipsticks.
Wayne Thiebaud's formal art training was paid for by the G.I. Bill, and he studied at San Jose State College and the California State University, Sacramento.
Thiebaud's first solo exhibition was at the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, and between the years of 1954 and 1957, he produced eleven educational films for which he was awarded the Scholastic Art Prize in 1961.
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  Wayne Thiebaud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is a painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, toys and lipsticks.
Thiebaud was a cockseam born to Mormon parents in Mesa, Arizona, America.
Thiebaud's first solo exhibition was at the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, and between the years of 1954 and 1957, he produced eleven educational films for which he was awarded the Scholastic Art Prize in 1961.
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 Wayne Thiebaud -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) is a painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastires, toys and lipsticks.
Thiebaud spent time working in food preparation, and is best known for his paintings of production line objects found in diners and cafeterias, such as pies and pastries.
Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included.
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 Wayne Thiebaud - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Thiebaud, Wayne, born in 1920, American painter, who introduced aspects of New York City pop art to the West Coast in the 1960s.
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 The Graphic - Wayne Thiebaud returns to Pepperdine
During Thiebaud's 50-year career he has received numerous honors for his work, such as the 1991 California Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, the 1994 National Medal for Arts Presidential Award and an honorary doctorate of fine arts degree from California State University, Sacramento in 1998.
Thiebaud’s art toured the nation in 2000-2001, stopping in cities such as San Francisco and New York, but skipped the Los Angeles area.
Thiebaud’s portrait paintings also capture the exquisiteness of the human figure in a moment of time.
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 Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective Coming to the Whitney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920 and has spent most of his life in California.
Thiebaud spent a number of years translating his still-life style into the representation of isolated, large-scale human figures, before directing his focus toward rural landscapes and the cliffs and bluffs of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and curated by FAMSF Associate Director and Chief Curator Dr. Steven A. Nash.
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 Singular Impressions: Wayne Thiebaud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
While serving in the army from 1942 to 1945, Thiebaud worked as a cartoonist, creating a character, Aleck, for the comic strip "Wingtips." He also painted murals for the officers¹ club and the post theater before being assigned to the first Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California.
In 1949 Thiebaud enrolled at California State University at San Jose and subsequently transferred to the university at Sacramento, where he received a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952.
Thiebaud taught studio art and art history at Sacramento City College from 1951 to 1959, becoming chairman of the department in 1954.
americanart.si.edu /collections/exhibits/monotypes/thiebaudbio.html   (243 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wayne Thiebaud was born in Arizona in 1920 and has spent most of his life in California.
In the 1950s, Wayne Thiebaud had developed a regional reputation by working with numerous exhibitions and artistic projects in and around San Francisco and Sacramento, and by the early 1960s his famous deadpan paintings of food and consumer goods began to emerge in their mature form.
Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue illustrating approximately 100 of the artist's most important works, all reproduced in color.
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 SWAP | Wayne Thiebaud Biographical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wayne Morton Thiebaud (tee'-boh) was born in Mesa, Arizona, November 15, 1920.
Thiebaud first gained national and international acclaim in the early 1960s when he became known for thick, impasto paintings of subjects such as mass-produced food and ordinary household objects.
Thiebaud is usually considered a pop artist, but his naturalistic images are more personal than is usual in true pop.
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 Wayne Thiebaud: Memories and Delights exhibit at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thiebaud is a man of purpose blessed with a gentle, generous spirit.
Thiebaud's art came to national attention in 1962 with his one- person show at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City and his participation in the "New Realists" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery during the same New York season.
Wayne Thiebaud has looked with wonder and fondness at the incongruities of contemporary life while maintaining a remarkable optimism, a sense of humor and a generous idealism.
artarchives.si.edu /exhibits/thiewayn/thiebaud.htm   (328 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud - Davis Wiki
Wayne Thiebaud is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento, and long-time art professor at UC Davis.
"Thiebaud's paintings of food and consumer goods, which first emerged in mature form in 1961-62 have become such a familiar part of our art historical landscape that the risks they first posed can easily be taken for granted.
Thiebaud's choices may gesture backwards to such precedents as Stuart Davis's Odol bottle, Gerald Murphy's safety razor, or even Marcel Duchamp's urinal, but they mostly embrace objects that happened to be close at hand and that impressed him as interesting in character or presence.
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 Wayne Thiebaud - First break - Brief Article ArtForum - Find Articles
Thiebaud, who had over the past two years moved from conventional landscape and figurative work to pictures of cafeteria-style food displays and other icons of mass consumption, left a number of the new canvases behind for Stone to consider.
Thiebaud's feel-good imagery was in itself less challenging than the chilling, impersonal visions of Rosenquist and Warhol, the artists to whom he was then most often compared.
Thiebaud remains politely skeptical of such readings, feeling that the paintings succeeded as paintings, not as statements of any particular philosophy or politics; the selection of subject matter was, in any case, intuitive, not purposive.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_39/ai_80485030   (833 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud
This forty-five work survey of Wayne Thiebaud’s artistic career spanning the breadth of his career from 1955 to the present affirms the depth and range of the dynamic artistic style of one of Northern California’s seminal painters.
Thiebaud’s style is easily identifiable to anyone even remotely familiar to the contemporary art scene, yet he is often overlooked when thinking of the “important artists” of the 1960s and 1970s.
Thiebaud’s problem is the same that one that Italian still life master Giorgio Morandi had--they are so good at what they do that they make it look too simple.
artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2003/Articles0103/WThiebaudA.html   (607 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud
This forty-five work survey of Wayne Thiebaud’s artistic career spanning the breadth of his career from 1955 to the present affirms the depth and range of the dynamic artistic style of one of Northern California’s seminal painters.
Thiebaud’s style is easily identifiable to anyone even remotely familiar to the contemporary art scene, yet he is often overlooked when thinking of the “important artists” of the 1960s and 1970s.
Thiebaud’s problem is the same that one that Italian still life master Giorgio Morandi had--they are so good at what they do that they make it look too simple.
www.artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2003/Articles0103/WThiebaudA.html   (607 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud emerged as a formidable contemporary artist during the early 1960s, when Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the rest of the Pop Artists represented the avant-garde.
Thiebaud embraced the clarity of this movement and would develop a similar style.
However, Thiebaud's motivation for depicting these everyday objects was quite different from that of his Pop Art contemporaries.
www.humrichfineart.com /thiebaud.html   (250 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud: Memories and Delights exhibit at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Thiebaud is a man of purpose blessed with a gentle, generous spirit.
Thiebaud's art came to national attention in 1962 with his one- person show at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City and his participation in the "New Realists" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery during the same New York season.
Wayne Thiebaud has looked with wonder and fondness at the incongruities of contemporary life while maintaining a remarkable optimism, a sense of humor and a generous idealism.
archivesofamericanart.si.edu /exhibits/pastexhibits/thiewayn/thiebaud.htm   (328 words)

  
 A Finding Aid to the Wayne Thiebaud Papers, 1944-2001, in the Archives of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920 and raised in Long Beach, California.
Thiebaud's work found its national audience in 1962 with his first exhibition, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York and his participation in the "New Realists" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery during the same New York season.
Thiebaud's work is currently found in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
artarchives.si.edu /findaids/thiewayn/thiewayn.htm   (1135 words)

  
 A Finding Aid to the Wayne Thiebaud Papers, 1944-2001, in the Archives of American Art
Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920 and raised in Long Beach, California.
Thiebaud's work found its national audience in 1962 with his first exhibition, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York and his participation in the "New Realists" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery during the same New York season.
Thiebaud's work is currently found in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
www.aaa.si.edu /collections/findingaids/thiewayn.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His application of paint was tender and eroticized, the touch of a cultivated gentleman, as is Thiebaud's painterly touch.
Thiebaud has had it with gumballs, slices of pie, wedding cakes, sandwiches and lollipops.
The retrospective exhibit of the work of Wayne Thiebaud, was organized by Steven Nash, associate director and chief curator of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, to celebrate the artist's 80th birthday.
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 Wayne Thiebaud Oral History Interview Conducted by Susan Larsen for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
WAYNE THIEBAUD: As a farmer or a rancher.
WAYNE THIEBAUD: -and the other experience she had, which is pretty amazing, is she helped take care of Henry Miller in the end of his life.
WAYNE THIEBAUD: Alan was just starting, and he showed… When I said I was gonna try to come to New York at a later date, he said he would show the work to Alan, and that's when - as we said, I think, earlier - that Alan wasn't interested, but became interested eventually.
artarchives.si.edu /oralhist/thieba01.htm   (14804 words)

  
 Artcom Museums Tour: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates California artist Wayne Thiebaud's prodigious career with the exhibition "Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting." Highlighting the work of this profoundly influential and inventive painter of landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, and portraits, the exhibition presents more than forty works from the past five decades.
Thiebaud exaggerates the steep hills and skyscrapers by featuring extreme perspectives of the city.
Wayne Thiebaud first began his career as a cartoonist and layout designer for Rexall Drug Company in the late 1 940s.
www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/gl/64111-18.htm   (537 words)

  
 Singular Impressions: Wayne Thiebaud
While serving in the army from 1942 to 1945, Thiebaud worked as a cartoonist, creating a character, Aleck, for the comic strip "Wingtips." He also painted murals for the officers¹ club and the post theater before being assigned to the first Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California.
In 1949 Thiebaud enrolled at California State University at San Jose and subsequently transferred to the university at Sacramento, where he received a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952.
Thiebaud taught studio art and art history at Sacramento City College from 1951 to 1959, becoming chairman of the department in 1954.
nmaa-ryder.si.edu /collections/exhibits/monotypes/thiebaudbio.html   (243 words)

  
 | Wayne Thiebaud : Pastels: 1960-2000 |
Thiebaud's subject matter throughout his career has been things familiar to us: gumball machines, pie slices, candy sticks, bow ties, cows trotting down a hill, vertiginous cityscapes, flat and spatial landscapes.
Thiebaud is a master of pastel; he makes manifest in these works all the qualities of the medium, and challenges himself with it as well.
Thiebaud skews what we think of as ordinary and makes us see in it a stranger beauty.
www.crownpoint.com /bookstore/artists/thiebaud_pastels.html   (588 words)

  
 Wayne Thiebaud (1920 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Wayne Thiebaud, Untitled (cow in landscape), 20th century
Born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920, Thiebaud began his career as a commercial artist and cartoonist.
Wayne Thiebaud artist portrait, brief biography and art
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 Hackett-Freedman: Wayne Thiebaud
Thiebaud's knowledge of and respect for commercial illustration greatly informed his subsequent work, which is marked by its formal geometric order and clearly defined forms.
Thiebaud himself disavows an allegiance to any style, preferring to concentrate on the discipline of painting and his formal concerns.
Wayne Thiebaud is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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 NGA Classroom: Counting on Art: Bios / Resources: Ten Things About Thiebaud (born 1920)
Wayne Thiebaud was born in 1912 in Mesa, Arizona.
In 1961, Thiebaud's food paintings—images of cakes, pies, candy, gumball machines, and deli counters painted with thick paint in bright colors—were exhibited in New York.
Thiebaud went on to paint cityscapes—from the steep hills of San Francisco to the colorful landscapes of the Sacramento Valley in California.
www.nga.gov /education/classroom/counting_on_art/bio_thiebaud.shtm   (417 words)

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