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In 1949, he enrolled at San Jose State College (now San Jose State University) before transferring to Sacramento State College (now California State University, Sacramento), where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952. He served as an artist in the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945. From 1938 to 1949, he worked as a cartoonist and designer in California and New York. The next summer he studied at the Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles. One summer during his high school years he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios drawing "in-betweens" of Goofy, Pinocchio, and Jiminy Cricket at a rate of $14 a week. His family moved to Long Beach, California when he was six months old. Thiebaud was born to Mormon parents in Mesa, Arizona, United States. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work. Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Wayne Thiebaud /weɪn tiboʊ/ WAYN TEE-boh (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter widely known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects-pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs-as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings.
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With his second wife, Betty Jean Carr, he had a son, Paul LeBaron, who later became an art dealer. With his first wife, Patricia Patterson, he produced two children, one of whom is the model and writer Twinka Thiebaud. On October 14, 1994, he was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. These painters were part of a new movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the art world and changed art forever. This exhibition is historically considered one of the first Pop Art exhibitions in America. In 1962 Thiebaud's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Robert Dowd, in the historically important and ground-breaking "New Painting of Common Objects," curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. These shows received little notice, but two years later, a 1962 Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition in New York officially launched Pop Art, bringing him national recognition although he disclaimed being anything other than a painter of illusionistic form. In 1960 he had his first one-man show in San Francisco at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in New York City at the Staempfli and Tanager galleries.
ELMER BISCHOFF SERIES
During this time, he began a series of very small paintings based on images of food displayed in windows, and he focused on their basic shapes.
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On a leave of absence, he spent time in New York City where he became friends with Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline and was much influenced by these abstractionists as well as proto pop artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1960, he became assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, where he remained through the 1970s and influenced numerous art students. He subsequently began teaching at Sacramento City College. He served as an artist in the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Force from 1942-45. One summer during his high school years he apprenticed at the Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Studio making 'in-betweeners' of Goofy, Pinocchio, and Jiminy Cricket making $14 a week. Thiebaud was born to Mormon parents in Mesa, Arizona, U.S.A. He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks.