![]() | Photo: Sacramento State / Mary Weikert. "I felt lucky that I was painting something that people happened to be interested in" he says, with characteristic self-deprecation. He's long recognized as one of the great American painters, and still has no complaints about the early mislabeling. She wrote, "Of all the West Coast Pop Artists, he has probably received the most national attention for his still-life paintings of assembly line cafeteria goodies and his neon-lit bakeshop specials." The Sacramento artist has been showing this type of work annually in New York at the Allan Stone Gallery, beginning in 1962, and had been subject of a solo museum exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1965 (soon to become the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).īut he didn't fit well to the Pop template he was just happy for the recognition. Nancy Marmer's essay for the seminal 1966 book, "Pop Art," assembled by Lucy Lippard, was indicative of his growing renown. Around 1962, Thiebaud was embraced as one of the main West Coast practitioners of Pop art. Davis after nine years at Sacramento City College - so why not paint what he wanted to, even if it meant he would be relegated to obscurity.īut his obscurity didn't last. He had a teaching job - by 1960 he had joined the faculty at U.C. So I painted those damn pies," Thiebaud recently told me. © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York.Īmong works created by living artists, Wayne Thiebaud's paintings, drawings and prints of cakes, pies and gumball machines may be the only images that could rival Jasper John's targets and maps for sheer familiarity among eloquent icons of American art.īut when he first painted the first of his paintings in this vein, his admitted reaction was: "This is ridiculous." National Gallery of Art, Washington Gift in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with additional support from the Abrams Family in memory of Harry N. ![]() Wayne Thiebaud, "Cakes," 1963, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in.
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