Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA
916-264-5423
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/
Slice of Life: Wayne Thiebaud Prints and Drawings
July 14, 2000 - October 29, 2000
Throughout his career, Sacramento-based artist Wayne Thiebaud has
demonstrated a special affinity for the ephemera of modern life: books,
eyeglasses, ice cream cones, lipstick containers and the like. Often represented
in the absence of any human presence, these fragments can serve as metaphors
for the whole of individual experience. "Slice of Life" features
thirty-five prints and drawings culled from the artist's important donation
of some seventy works to the Crocker in 1995. Many of these works have never
been on display; all of them reveal the artist at his most personal, introspective
and experimental. "Slice of Life: Prints and Drawings of Wayne Thiebaud"
recognizes and honors the artist's generous gifts and ongoing commitment
to the Crocker and to the Sacramento community. (left: Lipsticks,
Crocker Art Museum collection)
Among
the many familiar and not-so-familiar works in the exhibition are a pair
of nude figure drawings, an earlier articulation of the well-known Candy
Apples, plus sketches of figures and motifs later re-utilized and recombined
in larger, more finished works. In each the artist demonstrates a penchant
for the reworking of his main themes and a ceaseless appetite for variety
within a chosen range of subjects. Other motifs make passing reference to
the artist's passion for the history of art and knowledge of important works
of literature. Thiebaud manifests an uncanny ability to imbue inanimate
objects at once with individual character and with impersonal objectivity.
As in all of his work, Thiebaud modulates his analytic probing of appearances
with wistfulness and whimsy reflecting his own highly individual temperament.
(left: Van, Crocker Art Museum collection))
"Slice of Life" is being held in conjunction with Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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