Acquavella wayne thiebaud biography
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Curriculum Vitae
Wayne Thiebaud
Born, Mesa, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts, California State University
Master of Arts, California State University
Honorary Doctorate, California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
Honorary Doctorate, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Honorary Doctorate, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
National Medal for Arts Presidential Award, from President Clinton
Selected Exhibitions
Wayne Thiebaud, Prints, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
The American Century: Art and Culture, , Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY
Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, National Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.
Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition , Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Wayne Thiebaud: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Work, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Wayne Thiebaud Graphics: , Whitney Museum of America
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Acquavella Galleries Presents Wayne Thiebaud's Works, Offering a Nostalgic Look at American Life
During the period of Pop Art's rise heralded bygd the movement's icons such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, many artists started experimenting with the new approach and its innovative thematic scope. However, Wayne Thiebaud ( - ), a celebrated American artist of the post-war generation known for his everyday subjects, did not feel aligned with the new movement.
Although his thematic scope — including, among others, cakes, ice creams, and gumball machines, responded to the new interest in the visuals of the American lifeworld, Thiebaud described himself as a traditional painter focused on illusionistic representation.
Exploring over six decades of the artist's career, the Wayne Thiebaud: Summer Days exhibition at Acquavella Galleries, organized in collaboration with the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation, presents Thiebaud's paintings that reveal his int
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Born , Mesa, Arizona
Died , Sacramento, California
Wayne Thiebaud at home in Sacramento,
Photo by Betty Jean Thiebaud.
Wayne Thiebaud () was often associated with Pop art for his paintings of popular consumer goods, but instead of focusing on the mass-production of cultural objects, the artist rendered his subjects out of an intimate nostalgia for what he considered the “best of America.” Drawing from his memory and personal experiences, rather than painting from life, the California native recreated and reimagined his subjects in vibrant colors and from unconventional perspectives. Although eventually celebrated for his colorful and textural depictions of consumer goods, Thiebaud originally trained as a commercial artist in the mid-twentieth century, and, after World War II, began a degree in fine art. Unlike other artists of his generation who idolized the gestural abstraction of the New York School, Thiebaud’s practice was always representational.