{"product_id":"wayne-thiebaud-a-paintings-retrospective","title":"Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective","description":"\u003cp\u003eWayne Thiebaud  the California-based painter  has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources. In fact  Thiebaud is part of the grand tradition of representational art from Chardin and Manet to the American Realist masters such as Eakins and Hopper. Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes  pies  delicatessen counters  and other consumer goods  Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies  the topography of Northern California  and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco. Continuous throughout his career is his combination of the perceptual and the conceptual  of sensuous color  light  and painterly texture with rigorously formal composition  resulting in a highly personalized Americana. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title  the first major survey in fifteen years of work by this famous American figurative artist. Steven A. Nash  Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco  has organized the exhibition and provides a biographical essay on Thiebaud. An extended essay by Adam Gopnik  the Paris Journal writer for The New Yorker  links Thiebaud to American writing as a painter in the tradition of Walt Whitman  William Carlos Williams  and John Updike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44947020939317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500092923","price":48.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500092927.jpg?v=1769978033","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wayne-thiebaud-a-paintings-retrospective","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}