Wayne Thiebaud
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Paintings: $1.1M medianWorks on paper: $164K medianSculpture/objects: $2.1M medianEditioned prints: $12.1K medianBooks/portfolios: $9.5K medianUnclassified lots: $32.1K medianPosters/ephemera: $4.4K median
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Prizes & Awards1

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals
Winner 2017
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Podcast Interviews5

podcasts No. 530: Holiday clips: Wayne Thiebaud The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Dec 30, 2021
Episode No. 530 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud died on Christmas Day; he was 101. This episode was recorded in the final days of 2017, and aired in ea…
podcasts No. 356: Labor Day clips: Wayne Thiebaud, part II The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Aug 30, 2018
Episode No. 356 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wayne Thiebaud. Next month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will offer two Thiebaud exhibitions : “Paintings and Drawings,” a presentation of Thiebau…
podcasts No. 355: Summer clips: Wayne Thiebaud The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Aug 23, 2018
Episode No. 355 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wayne Thiebaud. Next month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will offer two Thiebaud exhibitions : “Paintings and Drawings,” a presentation of Thiebau…
podcasts No. 325: Wayne Thiebaud (part two), on Jack Whitten The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Jan 25, 2018
Episode No. 325 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wayne Thiebaud and curator and museum director Kathryn Kanjo. Thiebaud is one of the world’s greatest living painters. The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at th…
podcasts No. 324: Wayne Thiebaud, Minor White The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Jan 18, 2018
Episode No. 324 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wayne Thiebaud and curator Julia Dolan. Thiebaud is one of the world’s greatest living painters. The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of Califo…
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Hatje Cantz · 2023
Thames & Hudson · 2018
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Past Exhibitions17

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Wayne Thiebaud: Icons & Jim Dine at 90: Recent Works

Jim Dine, Wayne Thiebaud

1880 Century Pk E # 100, Los Angeles, CA 90067, United States

Feb 23, 2026 — Apr 30, 2026

Wayne Thiebaud: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper

Wayne Thiebaud

645 Chestnut Street

May 17, 2025 — Jul 3, 2025

Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

Wayne Thiebaud

Jan 1, 2025

Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art Mar 22 – Aug 17, 2025 Legion of Honor

Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

Wayne Thiebaud

50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA

Jan 1, 2025

Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art Mar 22 – Aug 17, 2025 Legion of Honor

Relaunched "Sweet Nostalgia"

Wayne Thiebaud

315 Montgomery Street, 10th Floors

Jun 1, 2024 — Jun 30, 2024

Wayne Thiebaud Summer Days

Wayne Thiebaud

18 E 79th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Apr 26, 2024 — Jun 14, 2024

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Wayne Thiebaud

2525 Michigan Ave b6, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United States

Jan 28, 2023 — Mar 11, 2023

Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud

340 Royal Poinciana Way, Palm Beach, FL 33480, USA

Dec 20, 2020 — Feb 20, 2021

Wayne Thiebaud "Sweet Nostalgia"

Wayne Thiebaud

315 Montgomery Street, 10th Floors

Mar 15, 2020 — Mar 22, 2020

Wayne Thiebaud Mountains 1965-2019

Wayne Thiebaud

Nov 5, 2019 — Dec 13, 2019

Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud

151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Sep 29, 2018 — Mar 10, 2019

Wayne Thiebaud Artist's Choice: September 29, 2018—March 10, 2019Paintings and Drawings: September 29, 2018—April 28, 2019 Northern California–based artist W...

Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Drawings

Wayne Thiebaud

151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Sep 29, 2018 — Apr 28, 2019

In two side-by-side exhibitions, Northern California–based artist Wayne Thiebaud’s own work is featured alongside paintings by others that he personally sele...

Wayne Thiebaud A Retrospective

Wayne Thiebaud

Oct 22, 2012 — Nov 29, 2012

Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud

1st Floor, 49 Albemarle St, London W1S 4JR, UK

Oct 9, 2009 — Jan 7, 2010

Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman

Wayne Thiebaud

225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA

Jan 1, 1920

Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman May 18 through September 23, 2018Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, California artist Wayne Thiebau...

WAYNE THIEBAUD: ICONS

Wayne Thiebaud

1880 Century Pk E # 100, Los Angeles, CA 90067, United States

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Art Fair Appearances6

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Seattle Art Fair — Seattle
2024
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2023
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2022
Untitled: San Francisco — San Francisco
2020
The Armory Show — New York
2017
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2015
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