Wayne Thiebaud - First break - Brief Article

Over the years, Thiebaud's consumerist tableaux gave way to a highly individual landscape idiom. Indeed, the artist has become our Morandi, a detached and highly focused independent working in a school of one. The sweet success of Thiebaud's New York debut was, you might say, a serendipitous case of good timing--and just desserts.

Justin Spring, a novelist and critic, is the author of Fairfield Porter: A Life In Art (Yale, 2000).

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