Artist Monograph

Wayne Thiebaud, American

American, 1920–2021

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	4	40%
Screenprint	2	20%
Lithography	1	10%
Oil Painting	1	10%
Woodcut	1	10%
Printmaking	1	10%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	9	90%
Painting & Sculpture	1	10%

Production by Decade

4

1960s

3

1970s

1

1980s

2

1990s

Classification Types

Print — 6
Illustrated Book — 3
Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	33.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)	6	66.7%

Range: 12.4 cm → 76.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1962	1
1967	1
1971	2
1972	1
1980	1
1982	1
1987	1
1995	1
2000	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 10 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Cut Meringues Painting Acc. 122.1962	1961	Oil on canvas	16 x 20" (40.6 x 50.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund
Untitled Print Acc. 683.1981	c. 1963	Etching	plate: 5 13/16 x 4 3/16" (14.8 x 10.7 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 7 15/16" (25 x 20.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Untitled (plate 17) from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America) Illustrated Book Acc. 324.1967.17	c. 1963, published 1964	Etching from an album of 16 etchings (one with aquatint, one with drypoint, one with pencil additions), three photogravures (two with etching), and one relief halftone	plate: 4 1/4 x 5 13/16" (10.8 x 14.7 cm); sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 15/16" (25.1 x 20.1cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Peter Deitsch Gallery
Pies from Delights Print Acc. 514.1971	1964, published 1965	Etching and aquatint from a portfolio of seventeen etchings	plate: 3 15/16 x 4 7/8" (10 x 12.4 cm); sheet: 15 x 11" (38.1 x 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Boston Cremes from Seven Still Lifes and a Silver Landscape Print Acc. 513.1971	1970, published 1971	Linoleum cut from a portfolio of two etchings, two linoleum cuts, two lithographs, and two screenprints	composition: 13 9/16 x 20 5/16" (34.5 x 51.6 cm); sheet: 22 7/16 x 30 1/16" (57 x 76.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Triangle Thins from Seven Still Lifes and a Silver Landscape Print Acc. 309.1972	1971	Etching from a portfolio of two etchings, two linoleum cuts, two lithographs, and two screenprints	plate: 21 15/16 × 17 9/16" (55.7 × 44.6 cm); sheet: 29 13/16 × 21 15/16" (75.7 × 55.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given in memory of Beth Lisa Feldman
Four Cakes from Recent Etchings I Print Acc. 351.1980	1979	Drypoint and aquatint from a portfolio of eight etchings	plate: 16 7/16 × 23 15/16" (41.7 × 60.8 cm); sheet: 23 1/4 × 29 3/4" (59.1 × 75.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Hill Street Print Acc. 420.1987	1987	Woodcut	composition: 30 × 20 1/4" (76.2 × 51.4 cm); sheet (irreg.): 37 3/8 × 24 1/8" (95 × 61.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Crown Point Press in celebration of its 25th anniversary
The Physiology of Taste Illustrated Book Acc. 58.1995.1-9	1994	Illustrated book with nine lithographs and 200 reproductions of drawings	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Albert Carman (by exchange)
Invisible Cities Illustrated Book Acc. 176.2000	1999	Illustrated book with twelve letterpress prints	page 14 x 11 15/16" (35 x 30.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund