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Indepth Arts News:
"Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud"
2001-02-03 until 2001-04-22
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC,
USA
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) is among the most important American
artists of the later twentieth century. Museum visitors are enchanted
by his vivid still lifes of cakes and pies, of lollipops and lunch
counters. His brilliant palette and luscious brushwork flavor his
signature depictions of everyday objects as well as the less familiar
landscape and figurative work.
Though best known for his richly painted canvases, Thiebaud also
has created a significant body of prints. Since 1964 the artist has
produced more than 130 editioned prints, employing lithography,
etching, aquatint, silkscreen, woodcut, and linocut. In the 1990s he
also began to experiment with the bright color and viscous ink of
the monotype process. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is pleased to
celebrate Wayne Thiebaud's eightieth birthday with an exhibition of
sixty of the artist's greatest prints.
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