Wayne 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.

Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Nash, Steven A.

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Crown Point Press in San Francisco, founded in 1962 by Kathan Brown, is a world-renowned center of contemporary printmaking. It has published work by such major figures as Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Sol LeWitt, and Wayne Thiebaud, while bringing to attention prints by many younger artists, including April Gornik, Anish Kapoor, Eric Fischl, and Francesco Clemente. Crown Point Press is known for presenting social and political issues in a range of printmaking media, from hard- and soft-ground etching to drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco acquired the Crown Point Press archive in 1991. This collection of nearly 800 works contains one impression of every print the Press has ever produced. Also included are over 2000 working proofs and preparatory sketches. Now, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has organized an exhibition of these distinctive prints. Chronicling Crown Point Press's dedication to artistic quality and commitment to innovation in printmaking technique and subject matter, this book also presents Kathan Brown's notable contributions in transforming the printmaking landscape of the twentieth century. Published in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art

Fine, Ruth

Breuer, Karin

University of California Press

The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Collection is renowned as one of the finest collections of Modern and contemporary sculpture in the world. Remarkable for its uniformly high level of quality as well as the depth of its representation of key artists, the collection spans more than a century, from the pioneering work of Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, and Medardo Rosso late in the nineteenth century to contemporary developments reflected in works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tony Cragg, Claes Oldenburg, and Richard Serra, among others.Lavishly illustrated in this volume are 136 works by fifty-eight artists, a selection that surveys many of the most important sculptural developments of the past one hundred years. In no other historical period have the definitions of sculpture been so dramatically challenged and expanded. The Nasher Collection is a celebration of the creative energies behind this Modernist tradition. Particularly notable is the presentation in depth of such masters as Alexander Calder, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, and David Smith; groupings of multiple works allow a broad picture of each artist's achievement.

A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection

Giménez, Carmen

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

catalogue of John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. The exhibition is organized by The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and made possible Rena Bransten, Morgan Flagg, Frumkin/Adam Gallery, John Jones, Byron Meyer, and Ruth and Ted Nash.

Arneson and Politics: A Commemorative Exhibition

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection

Univ of Texas Pr

This expanded edition was published on the inauguration of the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2003. Essays by Carmen Gimenez, Michael Brenson, and Steven A. Nash. Artists include Degas, Brancusi, Noguchi, Serra, Segal, di Suvero, Stella, Puryear, Long, and others. 152 works by 62 artists are illustrated. Measures 10x11.75 inches.

Brenson, Michael

Nasher, Raymond

Nasher Foundation

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, "A Passionate The Weiner Family Collection" October 3, 2015-January 31, 2016, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California.

A Passionate Eye : the Weiner Family Collection

Palm Springs Art Museum

Of exceptional quality, the 108 masterpieces of European paintings featured in this volume chart the major artistic trends of Western European painting from the 14th through to the early 20th centuries.

Masterworks of European Painting

Orr, Lynn Federle

Stewart, Marion

Hudson Hills

The catalogue for an exhibition of the sculptures of Joel Shapiro. Essay by Steven A. Nash. 55 pages; 37 color plates + color frontis, b&amp;w historical photo, and 4 text illustrations; 9.5 x 11 inches.

Joel Shapiro

Pace Wildenstein

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