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| Born 15 November in Mesa, Arizona |
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| Works briefly in animation department of Walt Disney Studios, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Participated in first major museum exhibition, Artist of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Cos Angeles County Museum |
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| Work as layout designer and cartoonist in advertising department for Rexal Drug Company, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Attends San Jose State College, San Jose, CA |
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| First solo show. Influences on a Young Painter, EB Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
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| Establishes company, Patrician Films, to produce educational art films |
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| Meets Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Philip Pearstein, Milton Resnick and Harold Rosenberg, among others |
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| Serves a guest instructor in printmaking, California School of Fine Arts |
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| Appointed, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of California, Davis |
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| Received University of California Faculty Fellowship |
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| One person show in New York, Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York |
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| Begins long association the Kahan Brown of Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA |
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| Portfolio of etchings, Delights, published by Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA |
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| Chosen to represent United States in the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil |
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| Receives commission from Sports Illustrated to Paint Wimbledon tennis Tournament, England |
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| Theme of San Francisco cityscapes begun |
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| Appointed thirty-first Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Davis, CA |
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| Receives special recognition award from National Association of Schools of Art and Design |
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| Elected to American academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York |
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| Elected as Associate of National Academy of Design, New York |
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| Received Honorary doctorate Award from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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| Elected as Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA |
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| Received National Medal of Arts from President William Jefferson Clinton |
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| Receives The Gold medal for Lifetime achievement in the Arts Award from the National Arts club, New York City |
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| 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 |
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| Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Art from the American Academy of Design, New York |
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| December 14, inducted into the California Hall of Fame |
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| Wayne produced 11 educational films for which he was awarded the Scholastic Art Prize in 1961 |
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| Exhibited at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York |
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| 1962 first solo museum show-in San Francisco |
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| At the M H de Young Memorial Museum |
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| 1962 landmark group exhibition |
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| ‘New Realist’ at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, officially launched Pop Art… brought Wayne national recognition. Although he disclaimed being anything other than a painter of illusionistic form. |
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| Paintings ‘Sunset Streets’ 1985 and ‘Flatland River’ 1997 are in some ways similar to Edward Hopper’s work |
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| Giorgio Morandi… and he admires the works of Vermeer, Diego Velasquez, Degas and others |
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| Due to his true life representations he has been seen as the predecessor to this movement |
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| Cartoonist and Advertising Designer |
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| Thiebaud spent over ten years working 1938 - 1949 in New York and Hollywood in these fields |
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| Cartoonist and Advertising Designer |
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| Thiebaud spent over ten years working 1938 - 1949 in New York and Hollywood in these fields |
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| Cartoonist and Advertising Designer |
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| Thiebaud spent over ten years working 1938 - 1949 in New York and Hollywood in these fields |
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| Received a teaching appointment at Sacramento Junior college, while still in graduate school |
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| Served in the United States Army Air Force |
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| (1936(2) – 2006) the man who gave him his first break and continued to be his art dealer until his death in 2006 |
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| Associated with movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, his works however predate the works of the classic pop artist. Suggesting he may have had an influence on the movement |
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| Well defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always in his works |
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| A pleasant change from Long Beach, “almost seemed a Northeastern city. It had a train station and even the leaves change colors with the seasons” |
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| “A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the paining more of a multi-dimension that when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction … and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration” |
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| “Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.” |
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| “An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.” |
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| “Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.” |
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| “If I don’t have anything better to do that day, I’ll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.” |
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| “We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.” |
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| “n artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares and artist to choose his own limitations…” |
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| “The figures… are not supposed to reveal anything… It’s like seeing a stranger in someplace like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don’t have any particular feeling about him.” |
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| At UC Davis he did not have much following among artist of this mind, because of his adherence to basically traditional disciplines, emphasis on hard work rather than creativity, and love of realism |
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| Becoming friends with Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline while on a sabbatical in New York had much influence on Thiebaud |
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| While in New York he met with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, they also influenced Wayne |
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| Paintings based on food displayed in windows |
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| Began this work while in New York and continued with this subject matter after returning to California, isolating triangles, circles, squares etc. |
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| Artist Cooperative Gallery |
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| Co-founded this art Gallery in Sacramento, later to be called Artist Contemporary Gallery, and other cooperatives including Pond Farm, after having been exposed to the concept of cooperatives in New York |
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| First one man show in San Francisco at the Museum of Art |
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| Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) |
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| One of Thiebaud’s successful students from Sacramento City College who went on to become a major influence in the direction of Indian art through his instruction at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, new Mexico 1964-1969 |
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| Earned Degree from Sacramento State College |
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| Worked as a cartoonist and designer in California, New York and as an artist while in the United states Army Air Force. |
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| At the age of thirty, he enrolled in Sacramento State where he earned his Master’s Degree in 1952. |
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| Assistant Professor at the University California, Davis. He still gives pro bono lectures at UC Davis |
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| Show in New York City at the Staempli and Tanager galleries, received little notice. But two years later the Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition in New York officially launched Pop Art and brought him national recognition |
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| 1962 Thiebaud’s work was included |
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| Along with Roy Lictenstein, Nady Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Robert Dowd in a historically important groundbreaking “New Painting of Common Object,” curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. Historically considered one of the first Pop Art exhibitions in America. |
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| 1962 Thiebaud’s work was included |
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| Along with Roy Lictenstein, Nady Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Robert Dowd in a historically important groundbreaking “New Painting of Common Object,” curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. Historically considered one of the first Pop Art exhibitions in America. |
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| Turned to figure painting, his figures were wooden and rigid with each detail sharply emphasized. |
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| Made his first prints at Crown Point Press and has continued to make prints throughout his career |
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| His work was shown at the Biennale Internationale |
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| “pleasure of friendship with a complex and talented man, a terrific teacher and cook, the best raconteur in the west with a spin serve, and a great painter whose magical touch is exceeded only by his genuine modest and humility.” |
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| A quote from Alan Stone. The Alan Stone Gallery was taken over by Thiebaud’s son, Paul who took over as his dealer. |
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| A successful art dealer in his own right who had eponymous (bearing the name ‘Paul Thiebaud’ or ‘Thiebaud’) galleries in Manhattan and San Francisco. He passed away from cancer on June 19, 2010 |
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| Cafe where he worked in Long Beach |
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Mile High and Red Hot
"Mile High" was ice cream and "Red Hot" was a hot dog |
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