{"id":46293,"date":"2025-09-27T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/46293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:29:16","slug":"see-highlights-from-wayne-thiebauds-first-uk-museum-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/46293\/","title":{"rendered":"See Highlights from Wayne Thiebaud\u2019s First UK Museum Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

No artist is more American in terms of subject matter and sensibility than Wayne Thiebaud, who painted food and features of postwar culture in still lifes that pair Pop art\u2019s wide-eyed reverie with signs of high-minded refinement. Before he starting showing his work in galleries in the 1960s, Thiebaud worked as an illustrator and designer, including stints in animation for Walt Disney Studios and graphic design for the military during World War II. After that, he commenced a singular career as an artist in the Bay Area who made all of America his home before he died in 2021 at the age of 101. (See an ARTnews <\/a>primer<\/a> on Thiebaud for an overview of his life and work.)<\/p>\n

Starting October 10, Thiebaud will be the subject of what\u2019s being touted as his first UK museum exhibition: a survey<\/a> at the Courtauld Gallery in London titled \u201cWayne Thiebaud: American Still Life.\u201d The show includes loans from private collections and institutions including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (which is lending his 1963 painting Cakes, pictured above), the Whitney Museum, the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, and more. The exhibition will be accompanied a related show of prints from 1965 titled \u201cWayne Thiebaud: Delights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below, see some highlights from the Courtauld show, which will run through January 18, 2026.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Three
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Photo: Randy Dodson, Courtesy Fine Art Museums of San Francisco\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Three Machines, 1963.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Paintings
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Courtesy Wayne Thiebaud Foundation\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Pie Rows, 1961.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Photo: M. Lee Fatherree\/Courtesy Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Cup of Coffee, 1961.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Colorful
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Courtesy Acquavella Galleries\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Four Pinball Machines, 1962.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Hot
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Photo John Janca\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Five Hot Dogs, 1961.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Meats
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Photo Julia Featheringill\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Delicatessen Counter, 1963.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"A
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\/Courtesy San Diego Museum of Art\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Caged Pie, 1962.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Candy
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Wayne Thiebaud\/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wayne Thiebaud, Candy Counter, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No artist is more American in terms of subject matter and sensibility than Wayne Thiebaud, who painted food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69,40628],"class_list":["post-46293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wayne-thiebaud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}