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Thiebaud's Hill Street (1987) Collection, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA

For the second of my posts on Wayne Thiebaud (For more biographical detail see the previous post) I am showing some of his landscape paintings. In 1963, Thiebaud turned increasingly to figure and landscape painting. Beginning in the 1970s, he began painting San Francisco cityscapes, wildly distorted views of the city's streets and hillsides that are reminiscent not only of Richard Diebenkorn's cityscapes from the mid-sixties but also the Precisionist paintings of Charles Sheeler and Georgia…

For the last twenty years— honestly, that long, with interruptions for sabbaticals and occasional reassignments to teach other courses as needed —I have led a project with students at the St. Louis Riverfront as an introduction to the visual essay. In all likelihood, given my new responsibilities wi

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Wayne Thiebaud, 'Reservoir and Orchard' 2001, oil on canvas

The volume surveys his extensive career, from his famous cake paintings to his vibrant landscapes

Taken at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

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In the last of three postings on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud (cakes, landscapes, and cityscapes) I'm taking a look at some of his cityscapes. Based on San Francisco with its dramatic hills where the roads rise and fall quite precipitously in places, they're a fanciful and exaggerated version of the reality. For biographical information on Thiebaud see my two previous posts.

Wayne Thiebaud - Coastal Farms

Wayne Thiebaud Smoke Reflections 1969

Our regular feature, Collection Rotation. Every month or so I invite a someone to organize a mini-“exhibition” from our collection works online. Please welc