Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting is the name of exhibition coming to Palm Springs Art Museum. The exhibition will be on view through 05.09.09.
A survey of more than one hundred works drawn from this great American artist’s lengthy career. Thiebaud (born 1920) has long been a mainstay of California’s cultural and artistic communities.
Since the early 1960s, he has shaped a personal artistic vision that embraces different subjects and stylistic variations but is always characterized by his blending of realism and abstraction, a penchant for dazzling light and high-keyed color, and a gift for painterly, sensuous handling of oils and pastels.
Best known for his still life compositions of bakery goods and delicatessen counters with their distinctive brand of nostalgic Americana, he also has specialized in large-scale portraits, studies of Northern California landscape, and cityscapes featuring San Francisco’s vertiginous geometry of nearly-vertical streets and sidewalks.
A full line of Thiebaud-related merchandise is available at the museum store, including the new Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting catalog. -- www.psmuseum.org
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