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Birth
1920 (Mesa, Arizona)
Death
Lived/Active
California
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mod still life, portrait, landscape paintings
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Modernism
California Painters
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A painter of pop-art realism combined with a great respect for traditional methods and subject matter, Wayne Thiebaud is one of the most prominent of the Bay Area painters in California in the latter part of the 20th century. His reputation spread far beyond his own state.
In his painting, he focuses on the commonplace in a way that suggests irony and objective distance from his subjects. He also makes a point of keeping an independent distance from the New York art scene.
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