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: (60)
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Wayne Thiebaud - Balls 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Wayne Thiebaud - Cakes 1963 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Wayne Thiebaud - River Pond 1967-75 acrylic on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Wayne Thiebaud - Blue Vendor 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Wayne Thiebaud - Down Eighteenth Street 1980 oil and charcoal on Hirshhorn Museum American
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Wayne Thiebaud - French Pastries 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Wayne Thiebaud - Girl with Ice Cream Cone 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Wayne Thiebaud Rug pile 18 - 19th century
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Wayne Thiebaud - Untitled (Still Life Sketches of Watermelon Sections) 1974 pencil on paper Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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June Wayne The Dreamers Lithograph 1952
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June Wayne The Bride Lithograph 1951
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June Wayne Target Lithograph 1951
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June Wayne Eve tentee Lithograph 1958
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June Wayne The Climb Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne The Screen Etching 1958
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June Wayne Third Monument - Paris Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne Adam en attente Lithograph 1958
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June Wayne Monument II - Paris Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne First Monument - Paris Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne The First Critic from the Fable Series Lithograph 1955
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June Wayne Kafka Symbols "Second Version" #2 Lithograph 1949
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June Wayne Black Ball in a Room Lithograph 1948
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June Wayne Promenade Aquatint with etching and collagraph 1958
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June Wayne "The Baite" - John Donne Series Etching 1958
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June Wayne "Two Graves" - John Donne Series Etching and aquatint 1957
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June Wayne Thou Shalt Not Color lithograph on black paper circa 1970
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June Wayne "She is all States, and all Princes, I" - John Donne Series Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne "We must leave at last in death" - John Donne Series Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne "The Baite" - John Donne Series Color lithograph 1958
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June Wayne "Shine here to us and thou art everywhere" from the John Donne Series Lithograph 1956
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June Wayne "Each Hath One" - John Donne Series Aquatint and etching 1958
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Three Bits, June Wayne (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1918) , 1993, Lithograph/collage
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June Wayne " . . . a winter-seeming summer's night" - John Donne Series Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne "Two graves hide thine and my course"- John Donne Series Lithograph 1957
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June Wayne "Goe and catche a falling starre" - John Donne Series Color lithograph 1957
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June Wayne "This extasie doth unperplex" - John Donne Series Color lithograph 1957
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June Wayne "We are tapers too" - John Donne Series Color lithograph printed in blue and black 1957
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June Wayne "The Anniversarie" - John Donne Series Color lithograph printed in brown and black 1957
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June Wayne "one room--an everywhere - John Donne Series Aquatint, soft ground etching, and collagraph 1958
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Frank Lobdell Untitled (1958) oil on canvas 1958
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June Wayne Cavern #1 Lithograph 1948
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June Wayne The Jury Lithograph 1953
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June Wayne The Hunter Lithograph 1952
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June Wayne The Second Jury Lithograph 1953
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June Wayne The Suitor Lithograph 1951
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June Wayne The Advocate Lithograph 1952
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June Wayne The Travellers Lithograph 1954
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June Wayne The Witnesses Lithograph 1952
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June Wayne Cavern #2 Lithograph 1951
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June Wayne Study for a Messenger V Lithograph 1955
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June Wayne The Witnesses #2 Lithograph with embossing 1952
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June Wayne The Hunter (state 2) Lithograph 1952
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June Wayne Strange Moon Lithograph 1951
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June Wayne The Tunnel (version 1) Lithograph 1949
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June Wayne Kafka Symbols #1 Lithograph 1948
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June Wayne The Tunnel (version 2) Lithograph 1951
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June Wayne Final Jury Lithograph 1954
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June Wayne The Witnesses (State I) Lithograph 1952
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June Wayne The Sanctified - Kafka Series Lithograph 1950
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June Wayne Quiet One - Kafka Series Lithograph 1950

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (18)
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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...
First Street Gallery: Small Takes: Zeuxis
The artists of Zeuxis are Lucy Barber, William Barnes, Suzanne Biggins, Joseph Byrne, Susan Cohen, Catherine Drabkin, Bevin Engman, Nancy Flanagan, Phyllis Floyd, Stanley Friedman, John Goodrich, Robert Jessel, Tim Kennedy, Deborah Kirklin, Carmel...
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...
ProArts Gallery: Pro Arts New Visions 2008: Juried by Lucinda Barnes and Karen Tsujimoto
Karen Tsujimoto is an accomplished curator and author. Her interest in modern and contemporary West Coast artists is demonstrated in her curation of The Art of Peter Voulkos, Dorothea Lange: Archive of an Artist, Transformation: The Art of Joan Br...
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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