Wayne Thiebaud used heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.
20 Facts About Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud was born to Alice Eugenia and Morton Wayne Thiebaud in Mesa, Arizona.
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Wayne Thiebaud and his family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his father was a bishop in the church when Wayne Thiebaud was a teenager.
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Wayne Thiebaud served as an artist in the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945.
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Wayne Thiebaud held a Professor Emeritus title there up until his death in late 2021.
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Wayne Thiebaud co-founded the Artists Cooperative Gallery, now Artists Contemporary Gallery, and other cooperatives including Pond Farm, having been exposed to the concept of cooperatives in New York.
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Paul Wayne Thiebaud was a successful art dealer in his own right and had eponymous galleries in Manhattan and San Francisco; he died June 19,2010.
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In 1962, Wayne Thiebaud's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Robert Dowd, in the historically important and ground-breaking "New Painting of Common Objects," curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum.
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Wayne Thiebaud died at his residence in Sacramento on Christmas Day 2021, at the age of 101.
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Wayne Thiebaud is well known for his paintings of production line objects found in diners and cafeterias, such as pies and pastries.
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Wayne Thiebaud was associated with the Pop art painters because of his interest in objects of mass culture; however, his works, executed during the 1950s and 1960s, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists, suggesting that Thiebaud may have had an influence on the movement.
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Wayne Thiebaud employed heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.
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Wayne Thiebaud disliked Andy Warhol's "flat" and "mechanical" paintings and did not consider himself a pop artist.
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Wayne Thiebaud's works are in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Exhibitions featuring Wayne Thiebaud include a 2001 retrospective at the Whitney Museum, a 2012 retrospective at Acquavella Galleries, and a 2021 retrospective at the Toledo Museum of Art.
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In 1987, Wayne Thiebaud was awarded the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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On October 14,1994, Wayne Thiebaud was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.
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Wayne Thiebaud received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Art from the American Academy of Design in 2001.
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Wayne Thiebaud was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010 at the California Museum, Sacramento, and in 2013, he was honored with the California Art Award in recognition of his part in raising the prominence of California art around the world.
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In November 2019, Sotheby's $8.46 million sale of Wayne Thiebaud's 2011 painting Encased Cakes set an auction record for the artist.