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Wayne Thiebaud (1920- ) is a painter and art teacher from Sacramento, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with Wayne Thiebaud, 2001 May 17-18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 636357721

Painter, art teacher; Sacramento, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with Wayne Thiebaud, 2001 May 17-18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394403

Painter, art teacher; Sacramento, Calif.; b. 1920.

From the description of Wayne Thiebaud papers, 1944-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220217959

Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920 and raised in Long Beach, California. After graduating high school, he worked as a free-lance cartoonist, commercial artist, and stage technician. He later landed a job at the Walt Disney studios as an 'in-betweener' filling in individual film frames started by animators. Thiebaud joined the Air Force in 1942 where he painted murals and began to create cartoons and illustrations.

After his service in the war, Thiebaud went to California State College in Sacramento to study art and art history. His work remained figurative but gained a conceptual dimension as he read, studied, taught, and exhibited a great deal in Northern California. During the late 1950s, Thiebaud spent time in New York City with artists such as Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Barnett Newman and other painters of their generation.

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. In that memorable year, when Pop Art burst upon the American cultural scene, Thiebaud's more painterly images of food and other familiar objects found an audience that has grown with each passing decade. Thiebaud's exhibition of store counters, suburban consumers, tie racks, cakes and pies seemed to comment upon American consumer culture as did his New York contemporaries. However, his thickly painted strangely illuminated forms had a pathos and a humor that was seldom found in Pop Art. Thiebaud's roots were more likely in the urban melancholy of Edward Hopper and the robust painterly style of Willem de Kooning.

Wayne Thiebaud has served as faculty member of the art department at the University of California at Davis for more than thirty years. At this writing, he lives and works in Sacramento, California while also maintaining a studio in San Francisco. He is still affiliated with the Allan Stone Gallery. 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. His recent 2000-2001 retrospective exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, traveled the nation to critical acclaim and great interest from the general public.

From the guide to the Wayne Thiebaud papers, 1944-2001, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Barbara Butzbach papers relating to Wayne Thiebaud Archives of American Art
creatorOf Hassel Smith papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn [Photographs of artists taken by Mimi Jacobs, photographer] Archives of American Art
referencedIn Sidney S. Lawrence letters from Abram Lerner Archives of American Art
creatorOf Roy De Forest papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Thiebaud, Wayne. Wayne Thiebaud : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
creatorOf Mel Ramos papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Wayne Thiebaud papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Thiebaud, Wayne : Biographical file. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
referencedIn Hassel Smith papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Thiebaud, (Morton) Wayne, 1920- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn William Theo Brown papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Thiebaud, Wayne. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
referencedIn Righter, James V. (James Volney). Illustrated journal/sketchbook, 1989 Jan. 19-1991 June 23. Boston Athenaeum
creatorOf Wayne Thiebaud papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Marian W. Sinton papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Thiebaud, Wayne, 1920-. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
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referencedIn Interviews conducted by Daphne Beneke with California artists Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Diana Crane Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Gordon Cook Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Bruce Nauman Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Raimonds Staprans Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Budd Hopkins Archives of American Art
creatorOf Oral history interview with Wayne Thiebaud Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Robert Arneson Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Fritz Scholder Archives of American Art
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associatedWith Arneson, Robert, 1930- person
associatedWith Beneke, Daphne person
associatedWith Brown, William Theo, 1919- person
associatedWith Butzbach, Barbara. person
associatedWith Cook, Gordon. person
associatedWith Crane, Diana, 1946- person
associatedWith De Forest, Roy, 1930-2007. person
associatedWith Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922- person
associatedWith Jacobs, Mimi person
associatedWith Larsen, Susan C., person
associatedWith Lawrence, Sidney, 1948- person
associatedWith Mallary, Robert, 1917-1997. person
associatedWith Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Nauman, Bruce, 1941- person
associatedWith Ramos, Mel, 1935- person
associatedWith Righter, James V. (James Volney) person
associatedWith Scholder, Fritz, 1937- person
associatedWith Sinton, Marian W., 1894-1980. person
associatedWith Smith, Hassel, 1915- person
associatedWith Staprāns, Raimonds, 1926- person
associatedWith University of California, Davis. Art Dept. person
associatedWith University of California, Davis. Art Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith Wiley, William T., 1937- person
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California
California--San Francisco
California
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Art, American
Art
Artists' preparatory studies
Art teachers
Art teachers
Painters
Painters
Painters
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Birth 1920-11-15

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