Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting
Thiebaud 2009 Wall Calendar
from Pomegranate
Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920) has little interest in snobby distinctions between commercial and serious art. His commitments are to artistic traditions, hard work, and the discovery of subjects and techniques that resonate for him. The twelve paintings reproduced here, among them 35 Cent Masterworks, Apartment View, Bakery Lady, Club Sandwich, Cakes and Pies, and Candy Counter, convey the artist s restless investigation of new subjects and insistent revisiting of familiar ones.
Size: 12 x 13 in.; opens to 12 x 26 in.
Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective
by Steven A. Nash
from Thames & Hudson
From Publishers Weekly: "He is an American painter, someone who paints for a living and whose subject, for all its formal perfection, is what we are to make of American abundance," writes New Yorker art critic Gopnik in his long, in-jokey introductory essay to Thiebaud's oeuvre now touring the country as a retrospective. As Gopnik makes clear, Thiebaud is famous for his lush early '60s paintings of cakes, other sweets and people eating them, but this book and the exhibition it documentsAput together by chief curator Nash of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, who also provides an essayAreveal the painter to be preoccupied with a larger slice of American life. The impossible perspectives and multigraded blues and yellows of the cityscapes here seem more bizarrely true to San Francisco than stills from Vertigo. Heavy Traffic, Deli Bowls, Tie Rack and Rabbit are just what they say they are, yet their surfaces coax us into looking at them harder and longer than such banal objects could possibly entice on their own. Such dressings-up themselves are commonplace in media-saturated American life, and Thiebaud redirects their energy unerringly throughout the 160 illustrations here, most in color. One might wish for a less insidery guide to the work than Gopnik's, but the panache of his biographical prose carries readers right into the paintings, well and comprehensively selected by Nash, whose own essay provides welcome detail on Thiebaud's working life. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Thiebaud Selects Thiebaud: A Forty-Year Survey from Private Collections
by Stephen C. McGough
from Univ of Washington Pr
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud painting
Wayne Thiebaud 2008 Calendar
by Wayne Thiebaud
from Pomegranate (Cal)
Pastel in America. Jack Beal, Jim Dine, Sandra Fisher, Juan Gonzalez, Robert Hudson, Wolf Kahn, R. B. Kitaj, Ellen Lanyon, Michael Mazur, Irving Petlin, Symour Rosofsky, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Wayne Thiebaud. Odyssia Gallery May 8-June 16, 1979
Vision and Revision
6 from California: Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Roland Petersen, Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, Franklin Williams
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