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1 comments about Wayne Thiebaud 2008 Calendar.

1. This calendar featuring the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud is beautiful. Published by Pomegranate Communications, it displays paintings from Thiebaud's early, middle and recent periods. The familiar pastry items are there as well as more recent aerial-viewpoint landscapes, all done in a very painterly fashion. This artist is now 86 years old and still painting. He is one of California's most important painters.

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5 comments about Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective.

1. an excellent book with excellent reproductions. i enjoyed it.



2. Remember that old Frank Sinatra song that served as an inspirational film for rainy day grade school entertainment in the 50's? Well, if there is an artist who has captured the imagination and dreamy reveries of life in the past century, the quieter, more ebulliently committed time to joy and the simple treasures here, that man is Wayne Thiebaud. WAYNE THIEBAUD: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE is a beautifully designed catalogue raisonne of the pop artist's oeuvre that toured the country a few years ago. Organized by curator Steven A. Nash of San Francisco (the artist's home) this book is beautifully illustrated with all of the iconic images of pies, cakes, candy apples, etc. that everyone associates with Thiebaud. Yet it gives equal time to the inimitable 'landscapes' of the hilly terrain that is San Francisco, valleys of Northern California, and beaches. Thiebaud's ability to flatten vistas into geometric patterns can be compared to Richard Diebenkorn's purely abstract Ocean Park Series of paintings: both artists understand space, color, and the excitement of the line.
   
   Accompanying this 'delicious' array of Thiebaud paintings are essays by both Nash and by Adam Gopnik of 'New Yorker' who aptly praises Thiebaud as a man in the same company of Americana as Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and John Updike! That about sums it all up and this essay alone would be reason enough to buy this important volume of American art history. Simply superb. Grady Harp, October, 2004



3. This is the definitive book on the works of Wayne Thiebaud, which accompanied the very successful exhibition at the Whitney Museum. Thiebaud is best known for his hyper-realistic paintings of food, so luscious and sensual that they have universal appeal. When Theibaud first started painting in this style, he was compared to the Pop Artists, such as Warhol, Wesselmann, Indiana and Ramos. However, Thiebaud always tried to set himself apart from these artists, because although he agreed with their use of repetitive images as a comment on the banality of American consumerism, he wanted to paint well and believed that a series of soup cans painted poorly did not reflect his goal as an artist. It took many years after the Pop Artists became famous for Thiebaud to achieve the recognition that he deserved, partly because he was considered a regional artist who painted in California. This book is the seminal treatise on the works of Thiebaud and is therefore a must read.



4. I had ordered this book to share it with my adult painting students in a class I teach. It was to inspire a lesson about painting pictures of pastries. What I found was so much more. The book provides an informative overview of a variety of types of work by this artist, both realist and pop artist, with fine quality reproductions of the art work.



5. As far as I know, this is the only available publication on Thiebaud. The book covers the artist's career from his early pastries paintings to his recent large-scale landscapes. It also enables the reader to discover less "typical" works, like the portraits of his wife.
   
   However, what makes Thiebaud's paintings striking is their thickness, the way the artist works through the layers of paint, what we call in French "la matière". It is not only the color, which of course is present in the reproductions that fill this book. Unfortunately, that is somewhat lost and therefore I was a bit disappointed when I opened this catalogue for the recent retro on Wayne Thiebaud. The reproductions should have shown more close-ups and details of the works. For this particular artist, something is lacking.

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1 comments about Thiebaud Selects Thiebaud: A Forty-Year Survey from Private Collections.

1. 32 brilliant, clear plates sampling 40 years in the career of California artist Wayne Thiebaud. We loved the personality revealed in the interview, subtly teaching and inspiring developing artists.

1 comments about Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting.

1. I was "introduced" to Thiebaud-style 30 years ago by an art teacher and recently decided I wanted to own one of his books, total eye-candy (pardon the pun) and inspiration. It's a hefty volume, coffee-table worthy; I was really thrilled over his latest works, which are cityscapes and landscapes, painted in a little different style than his earlier foodie still lifes, a little darker, almost scratchy....and awe-inspiring. Color quality is excellent, as is the size, of the reproductions. Just wonderful.

2 comments about Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud.

1. An absolutely "delicious" study of a contemporary painter, how he makes art, and what art does, packaged in a wonderfully designed book that young people (and pretty much anyone else) will enjoy.



2. Kids in grades 4-6 will relish this colorful biography - just over a hundred pages in length - of one Wayne Thiebaud, an artist whose food paintings have come to represent not only food but 20th century American art as a whole. From gum machines and paint cans to stadiums, Thiebaud's art representations captured and depicted popular American culture, and DELICIOUS reviews his life, influences, achievements and art forms with an eye to exploring his lasting impact. Any library strong in colorful biographies for kids will find this a pick that lends to leisure browsing as well as report assignment.

3 comments about Counting with Wayne Thiebaud.

1. I love this book for it's quirky interpretation of numbers. Small and sturdy for little hands and it's a wonderful companion book to the Andy Warhol / Colors book. Very charming and my 2-year old daughter, who is learning about numbers right now, adores it.



2. Wonderful! I wish I had had this when my kids were little. It has beautiful pictures and a lovely poem in it.



3. This is a beautiful Board book filled with Thiebaud art used as a counting tool. The pages are a glossy finish and I know my daughter will enjoy it for years to come.