While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are ...

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But in a move that separates Thiebaud from the pop art movement he's often associated with, the show highlights how often his images borrowed from past greats. "Behind many of his paintings," in ...

When you look at a painting of parfaits and sundaes by Wayne Thiebaud, do you think of the bottles and vessels lined up in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi? Or view a row of his cupcakes and see ...

Thiebaud’s art lesson Thiebaud spent most of his adult life teaching — first at Sacramento City College and then at UC Davis — so it is only fitting that the great American artist and ...

On March 22, the Legion of Honor opened “Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art,” an exhibit dedicated to highlighting the influence of art history on Northern California painter, Wayne Thiebaud. More ...

Wayne Thiebaud, "Display Cakes," 1963. Oil on canvas, 28 x 38 in. (71.12 x 96.52 cm) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mrs. Manfred Bransten Special Fund purchase ...

The Art of Appropriation A new museum retrospective spotlights the late Sacramento painter and professor Wayne Thiebaud as a master student of art history. From da Vinci to Picasso, great artists have ...

Wayne Thiebaud, Confections (1962). Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of Byron R. Meyer.

SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) was a self-described art “thief” who openly appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American paintings, believing that art history is ...