Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Wayne Thiebaud (landscapes)

For the second of my posts on Wayne Thiebaud (For more biographical detail see the previous post) I am showing some of his landscape paintings. In 1963, Thiebaud turned increasingly to figure and landscape painting. Beginning in the 1970s, he began painting San Francisco cityscapes, wildly distorted views of the city's streets and hillsides that are reminiscent not only of Richard Diebenkorn's cityscapes from the mid-sixties but also the Precisionist paintings of Charles Sheeler and Georgia O'Keefe (for his cityscapes see my next post). His most recent landscapes dating from the mid-1990s share many of the same spatial and planar distortions seen in the cityscapes but utilise hotter colour and flattened planes to create the imagery.




















































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12 comments:

  1. Sue Guiney23 November 2010 at 10:29

    This reminds me of your work as well -- something about the lines and colours.

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  2. Poul Webb23 November 2010 at 18:37

    We're both into colourful semi-abstract landscapes for sure. Although I didn't see Thiebaud's originals until the early 80's I wrote to him in 1969! I received a reply which is in a box somewhere.

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  3. tunamunaluna27 September 2011 at 20:27

    Thanks for compiling his landscapes, I hadn't seen them together before. The trees and clouds still look like cakes and cotton candy to me...

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  4. Unknown6 September 2012 at 01:57

    I'm astounded by Thiebaud's complicated designs and patterns. Just wonderful. And he certainly does not shy away from rich color scheme. Thanks for bringing these to the fore!

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  5. SirRichardKay16 January 2013 at 22:57

    What are the titles on these?

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  6. Poul Webb18 January 2013 at 10:20

    It's an early post and my research wasn't up to scratch. I will be enlarging and updating posts like this one in the course of time. Apologies.

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  7. سكاي للتنظيف13 April 2014 at 18:51

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  8. Unknown16 January 2015 at 10:56

    Where can I prints of his landscapes!? So pretty

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  9. Poul Webb17 January 2015 at 13:46

    I don't really know, sorry.

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  10. Joan14 June 2015 at 17:11

    I found a framed print of Flatland River at a consignment store. I paid $40.00 for it.

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  11. Joan14 June 2015 at 17:13

    I found a framed print of Flatland River at a consignment store. I paid $40.00 for it.

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  12. Unknown17 April 2018 at 22:19

    What was the year & name of the 2nd posted painting here on this blog? I have a framed print of it which I bought from an accessory store in Kansas while on a trip 15 years ago- I just loved it & had it shipped to Orange County, CA , where I lived. Now I am taking an art class by Susan Clark, in Escondido, CA & we are studying some of his works. Can’t find a title or date? Thanks, SusanJelinek

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