Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of prints by Wayne Thiebaud from November 1st through December 8, 2001.  The show will include a selection of some of the artist’s best etchings, aquatints, linocuts and woodcuts from 1962 to the present.  The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street.  Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6.

Celebrated for his carefully observed images of cakes, pies, toys and lipsticks, Wayne Thiebaud’s prints have been an important part of the artist’s oeuvre since the early 1964 “Delights” portfolio of tiny incisive etchings of commonplace American still-life objects - a restaurant tabletop dispensers, a plate of olives, a display of stately cake wedges, a can of sardines.  Later images of rabbits and lollipops were followed by San Francisco cityscapes like “Steep Street” in which the city’s verticality is extended into flat pattern.  In his etchings and aquatints, such as the stunning “Four Cakes,” and the extraordinary Japanese woodcuts like the darkly luminous “Candy Apples,” Thiebaud gives weight and presence to passing pleasures and to ephemeral qualities of light and shadow.

There was a retrospective of Wayne Thiebaud’s prints at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. earlier this year.  The Whitney Museum in New York and The Phillips Collection in Washington had major retrospectives of his paintings and drawings this year as well.

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