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Happy Friday, everyone, and hope your taxes are done. Here’s a two-minute art break for you all.

Wayne Thiebaud
b.1920

Salads, Sandwiches, and Desserts, 1962.
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Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter. He was born in Arizona and studied in California.

Cakes, 1963.
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Thiebaud is a UC Davis Professor Emeritus. He still teaches one course per year.

Black and White Suckers, 1971.
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I’ve seen some of his work in person at SF MOMA. He’s a painter after my own heart.

[This post was imported on 4/10/14 from my old blog at satsumabug.livejournal.com.]