A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle. Wayne Thiebaud, "Buffet" (1972–75), oil on canvas; San ...

Thiebaud’s “luscious yet unsettling” still lifes make for an “excellent” exhibition, said Alastair Sooke in The Telegraph. His depictions of ordinary snacks are both “irresistible and brilliantly ...

From a jack to a king, Wayne Thiebaud’s fortunes rose with his first successful exhibition in New York with Allan Stone ...

I thought, ‘My God! I’m done in! Nobody will ever take me seriously!’ Then I found I couldn’t leave it alone, it was so real to me.” Thiebaud’s early still-lifes from the 1960s, his breakout period, ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Last year, an ...

Wayne Thiebaud, appropriation artist? That’s the thesis of a forthcoming exhibition at the Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “It’s hard for me to think of artists who ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) was a self-described art “thief” who openly appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American paintings, believing that art history is ...

When you look at a painting of parfaits and sundaes by Wayne Thiebaud, do you think of the bottles and vessels lined up in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi? Or view a row of his cupcakes and see ...

No crumbs were left behind at Cake Picnic in San Francisco on Saturday as attendees gawked, photographed and ultimately ate 1,387 cakes. By Simon J. Levien Mr. Thiebaud’s rich and luminous depictions ...

Where does wayne Thiebaud fit into modern American painting? You don’t have to spend long in his current retrospective, at New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art until Sept. 23, to realize ...

Matt Bult (left) and Maria Bult (right) pose with Maria Manetti Shrem with artworks the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation is giving to the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection. Visible to their left is an oil ...