Wayne Thiebaud Biography and Art
Wayne Thiebaud Short Biography
Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter best known for his still lifes of edible treats and everyday objects in his singular illustrative style. His most popular subject matter includes colorful cakes, slices of pie, candy pieces, and the winding streets of San Francisco. Similarly to Edward Hopper, Theibaud’s paintings capture a uniquely American sensibility, and critics have compared his penchant for still life to painters
Wayne Thiebaud Artworks
like Chardin and Giorgio Morandi.“A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording,” he reflected. “This results in a kind of abstraction, and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.” Born Morton Wayne Thiebaud on November 15, 1920 in Mesa, AZ, the painter moved to California soon after, where he became interested in stage design and lighting. He began his career as a commercial artist, but switched to fine art after during his education and earned an MFA from what is now the California State University at Sacramento.
A trip to New York during the 1950s introduced him to Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others in the city’s art scene at the time. Although he continued to show on the East Coast, Thiebaud has remained in the Bay Area, and his work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994.
Wayne Thiebaud Timeline works
- 1961 Pies, Pies, Pies
- 1962 Around the Cake
- 1962 Bakery Counter
- 1962 Confections
- 1962 Candy Machine
- 1963 Cakes
- 1963 Girl with Ice Cream Cone
- 1964 Three Strawberry Shakes
- 1964 Eight Lipsticks
- 1964 Man Sitting - Back View
- 1964 Lemon Cake
- 1966 Powder With Puff
- 1968 Coloma Ridge
- 1970 Seven Suckers
- 1971 Four Cupcakes
- 1975 Shoe Rows
- 1976 Potrero Hill
- 1977 24th Street Intersection
- 1981 Hill Street (Day City)
- 1987 Two Paint Cans
- 1991 The Three Cows
- 1992 Thirteen Books
- 1993 Apartment View
- 1993 Coastline (California Arts Council specialty license plate)[14][15]
- 1996 Farm Channel
- 1999 Reservoir
- 2000 Clown Cones
- 2002 Jolly Cones (Ice Cream Cones)
- 2008 Three Ice cream Cones
- 2010 The Google 12th Birthday Cake
- 2010 Tulip Sundaes
Wayne Thiebaud Collections
Thiebaud's works are also in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Phoenix Art Museum.[Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; and many other institutions.
Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
Wayne Thiebaud
“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”
“I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.”
Wayne Thiebaud
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism... (Wayne Thiebaud)
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. (Wayne Thiebaud)
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