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Wayne Thiebaud

Biography

Born: Mesa, Arizona, 1920

BIOGRAPHY:
1920 Born November, 15, in Mesa, Arizona.
1936 Works briefly in animation department of Walt Disney Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
1937 Attends Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, to study commercial art.
1940–41 Attends Long Beach Junior College (now Long Beach City College), Long Beach, CA.
1942–45 Serves in United States Army Air Force. In the last months of service is transferred to First Air Force Motion Picture Unit, Culver City, CA.
1946–49 Work as layout designer and cartoonist in advertising department for Rexall Drug Company, Los Angeles, CA. Meets sculptor Robert Mallary, a co-worker at Rexall.
1948 Participates in first major museum exhibition, Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum (now Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
1949–50 Attends San Jose State College (now San Jose State University), San Jose, CA.
1950–53 Transfers to California State College (now California State University), Sacramento, CA. Receives BA in 1951; receives MA in 1953 (art major focused on art history, theory, and education).
1951 First solo show. Influences on a Young Painter, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1950–59 Serves as exhibit designer for annual art exhibition of the California State Fair and Exposition, Sacramento, CA.
1951–60 Receives appointment as instructor of art, Sacramento Junior College (now Sacramento City College). Chairman of Art Department (1954–56, 1958–60).
1954 Establishes company, Patrician Films, to produce educational art films, including Color on a Stone and Modern Art Series, at Bailey Films, Hollywood, CA.
1956–57 Takes leave of absence from teaching to live in New York, NY. Meets Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Philip Pearlstein, Milton Resnick, and Harold Rosenberg, among others.
1958 Serves as guest instructor in printmaking, California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), substituting for Nathan Oliveira. Co-founds the Artists Cooperative Gallery (now Artists Contemporary Gallery), Sacramento, CA.
1960 Appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of California, Davis, CA. Subsequently appointed Associate Professor (1963-67) and Professor (1967 to 1990). Now serves as professor emeritus.
1961 Receives University of California Faculty Fellowship enabling travel to New York during summer. Meets Allan Stone, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1962 Has one-person show in New York, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
Has first one-person museum exhibition in San Francisco, An Exhibition of Paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Included in the group exhibition New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY.
1963 Begins long association with Kathan Brown of Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA (later moved to San Francisco).
1965 Portfolio of etchings, Delights, published by Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA.
1967 Chosen to represent United States in the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil.
1968 Receives commission from Sports Illustrated to paint Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, England (June issue).
1970 Works on series of linocuts, Arnera Printshop, Vallauris, France.
1971 Theme of San Francisco cityscapes begun.
1972 Appointed thirty-first Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Davis, CA, and honored with Golden Apple Award for distinguished teaching at U.C. Davis. Receives honorary doctorate, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA.
Establishes second home in San Francisco, CA.
1976 Begins weekly drawing sessions in San Francisco with group of Bay Area artists including Mark Adams, Theophilus Brown, Gordon Cook, and Beth Van Hoesen.
1981 Receives citation from College Art Association of America as Distinguished Studio Teacher of the Year for 1980–81.
1983 Receives honorary doctorate, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Travels to Japan to work with traditional Japanese woodblock printers.
1984 Receives special recognition award from National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
1985 Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
1986 Elected as Associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY.
1987 Advances to Academician of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY.
Receives Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in the Arts on behalf of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA.
Receives Award of Honor for distinguished service in the arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA.
Honoree, American Academy of Achievement.
1988 Receives the Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, University of California, Davis, CA
Receives Honorary Doctorate Award from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
Elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA.
1990 Receives Distinguished Service Award, California State University, Sacramento, CA.
1991 Receives the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.
1993 Receives Grumbacher Gold Medallion Award for Painting from the American Academy of Design, New York, NY.
Awarded doctor of arts degree, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA.
Honorary Member: California Society of Printmakers, Berkeley, CA.
1994 Receives National Medal of Arts from President William Jefferson Clinton.
1995 Receives Distinguished Artists Achievement Award from the California Society of Printmakers, Berkeley, CA.
1996 Receives The Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from the National Arts Club, New York, NY.
Receives Award of Excellence from the National Park Service for his illustrations in the 1995 edition of the book Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report by Frederick Law Olmstead, 1865.
1997 Receives Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Boston, and gives commencement address, Boston, MA.
2000 Receives Medal for Painting from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY.
2001 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Art from the American Academy of Design, New York, NY.
2004 Receives nomination for the Gold Medal for Graphic Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1951 Influences on a Young Painter, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery (now Crocker Art Museum), Sacramento, CA.
1951 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints, California State Library, Sacramento, CA.
1954 Paintings: Wayne Thiebaud, Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1957 Thiebaud - Recent Works, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1958 Recent Works of Wayne Thiebaud, Artists Cooperative Gallery (now Artists Contemporary Gallery), Sacramento, CA.
1960 Wayne Thiebaud, Art Gallery, Humboldt State College (now Humboldt State University), Arcata, CA.
1960 Paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, The Nut Tree, Vacaville, CA.
1961 An Exhibition of Recent Works by Thiebaud, Art Unlimited, San Francisco, CA.
1962 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1962 An Exhibition of Paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA.
1963 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
1963 Wayne Thiebaud, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy.
1964 Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1965 Prints, Drawings and Paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, CA.
1965 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1965 Figures: Thiebaud, Stanford Art Museum (now Stanford Museum and Art Gallery), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1965 Delights, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1967 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1968 Wayne Thiebaud, Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum), Pasadena, CA.
Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Utah Museum of Fine Arts of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
1968 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1968 Thiebaud, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI.
1969 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Works, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1970 Recent Work by Wayne Thiebaud, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1970 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Works, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1971 Wayne Thiebaud Graphics: 1964-1971, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organized by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York).
1971 Traveled to: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts (now The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), Kansas City, MO; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1972); Fort Wayne Museum of Art, TX (1972); Fort Worth Center Museum (now Fort Worth Art Museum), TX (1972); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (1972); Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (1972); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (1972); Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD (1972); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (1973); Wallraf-Ritchartz Museum, Cologne, West Germany (1975); Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England (1976); Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1979)
1971 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, and Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1972 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1972 Wayne Thiebaud: Survey of Paintings 1950–72, The Art Museum and Galleries (now University Art Museum), California State University, Long Beach, CA.
1973 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Pastels, and Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1973 Wayne Thiebaud, Paintings and Drawings 1958–1973, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, OR.
1973 Works on Paper and Other Edibles: An Exhibition of the Works of Wayne Thiebaud, Holland Union Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
1973 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Work, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1974 Thiebaud in Dakota, University Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
1974 Paintings and Graphics by Wayne Thiebaud, Genevieve and Donald Gilmore Art Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI.
1974 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings , Drawings and Prints, Church Fine Arts Gallery (now Sheppard Gallery), University of Nevada, Reno, NV.
1975 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Traveled to: The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
1975 Wayne Thiebaud, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.
1976 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Works on Paper, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
1976 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1976 Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947–1976, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
Traveled to: The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (1977); University of Southern California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (1977); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (1977); Neuberger Art Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (1977); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (1977).
1977 Wayne Thiebaud/Strictly Personal, Delphian Gallery, Sheridan, OR.
1977 Wayne Thiebaud: Drawings, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA.
1977 Wayne Thiebaud: Creations on Paper, Visual Arts Gallery, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, MN.
1978 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
1978 Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper, Boise Gallery of Art, ID.
1979 Wayne Thiebaud: San Francisco Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1980 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Pastels, and Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1980 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Drawings, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1980 Wayne Thiebaud, Art Gallery, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX.
1980 Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1980 Wayne Thiebaud, Van Staveren Fine Art, Sacramento, CA.
1980 Wayne Thiebaud, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
1981 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
1981 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints, Gallery Hiro, Tokyo, Japan.
1981 Traveled to: Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
1981 Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1981 Thiebaud Graphics, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
1981 Prints and Paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, VA.
1983 Wayne Thiebaud: Landscapes & City Views, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Drawings, Graphics 1961-1983, The Trout Gallery, Emil R. Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.
1985 Wayne Thiebaud, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Traveled to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (1986); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (1986); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (1986); The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (1986).
1986 Wayne Thiebaud: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper from the Collection of the Artist, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Traveled to: Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1988 Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper, 1947-1987, organized by the Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA.
Traveled to: Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA; Northern Arizona University Art Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ; University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA (1989); Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (1989); Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK (1989); Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA (1989); Institute for Contemporary Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (1990).
1988 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints and Works on Paper, Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1988 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1988 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints and Other Rarities, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1989 Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA.
1990 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints and Hand Colored Etchings, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London, England.
1990 Wayne Thiebaud: Sketchbook Selections, Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1990 Thiebaud at Seventy: A Retrospective Selection of Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints, 1990 Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA.
1992 Wayne Thiebaud Still-Lifes, Graystone, San Francisco, CA.
1992 Selections from the Collection/Wayne Thiebaud Prints, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis, CA, also Wayne Thiebaud: Posters from the Collection of Gina Kelsch.
1993 Wayne Thiebaud: Figure Drawings, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
1993 The Prints of Wayne Thiebaud, The Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR.
1993 Wayne Thiebaud: Cityscapes, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1994 Wayne Thiebaud: Celebrating 33 Years Together, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1995 Wayne Thiebaud: The Physiology of Taste, 9 New Lithographs, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY.
1995 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints 1970-1984, A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA.
1995 Wayne Thiebaud: Objects of Desire, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA.
1997 Wayne Thiebaud, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Wayne Thiebaud: Intimate Prints, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO.
1997 Wayne Thiebaud: Landscapes, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1998 Wayne Thiebaud-Works on Paper Exhibition and Workshop, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL (January).
1998 Works on Paper, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO.
1999 Simple Delights, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA (October).
2000–2001 Wayne Thiebaud: Pastels 1960–2000, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000 A Paintings Retrospective, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA.
Traveled to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
2001 The Private Wayne Thiebaud, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX.
2001 The Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
2001 Four Decades with the Allan Stone Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.
2002–2003 Riverscapes, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Traveling to: Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (February 5 - March 22); Faggionato Fine Arts, London (April 8 - May 24).
2003 Wayne Thiebaud: Works from 1955–2003, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (January 11 - March 23).
Traveling to: University Library Gallery at California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (April 4 - July 25).
2003 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (summer exhibition)
2004 People, Places, & Things, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2004 Paintings, Faggionato Fine Arts, London.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
1965 Figures: Thiebaud. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965.
1968 John Coplans. Wayne Thiebaud. Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1968.
1971 Wayne Thiebaud Graphics: 1964–1971. New York: Parasol Press, 1971.
1972 Wayne Thiebaud: Survey of Paintings 1950–1972. Long Beach, 1972.
1976 Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947–1976. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1976.
1980 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Prints. San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 1980.
1981 Beal, Graham W.J. Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1981.
1982 Wayne Thiebaud. Santa Cruz, California: Art Museum of Santa Cruz Country, 1982.
1983 Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings, Drawings, Graphics 1961-1983. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Dickinson College, 1983.
1985 Karen Tsujimoto. Wayne Thiebaud. San Francisco and Seattle: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and University of Washington Press, 1985.
1987 Wayne Thiebaud: Private Drawings, The Artist's Sketchbook. New York: Abrams, 1987.
1990 Thiebaud at Seventy. Moraga, California: Saint Mary's College, 1990.
1990 Wayne Thiebaud: Prints and Hand Colored Etchings. London: Karsten Schubert, 1990.
1993 Wayne Thiebaud: Cityscapes. San Francisco: Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 1993.
1994 Wayne Thiebaud Figurative Works: 1959–1994. San Francisco: Wiegand Gallery College of Notre Dame - In cooperation with the Northern Arizona Art Museum and Galleries, 1994.
1994 Wayne Thiebaud: Celebrating 33 Years Together. Allan Stone Gallery, 1994.
1997 Wayne Thiebaud: Landscapes. Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 1997.
2000 Wayne Thiebaud: Pastels 1960–2000. Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 2000.
Nash, Steven A. with Adam Gopnik. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective. San Francisco and New York: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2000.
2002 Wayne Thiebaud: Riverscapes. Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery, Faggionato Fine Arts, 2002.
2003 Wayne Thiebaud: Works from 1955-2003. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University and University Library Gallery, California State University Sacramento, 2003.
2003 Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.

Artist Works

Cakes and Pies
2006
color direct gravure
30 x 25 1/2 inches   


Donuts and Cupcakes
2005
mixed media on paper
18 x 24 inches   



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