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From Sacramento Bee; The California State University, Sacramento collection of works by Wayne Thiebaud, one of America's most celebrated working painters, will be exhibited for the first time Dec. 3 through March 6 in the university's Library Gallery.  The collection covers his work from 1948 to 2004.    The exhibit will be free and Glallery hours are from 10:am to 5 pm.

Thiebaud is 89 years old.  The picture above was painted in 1963.  It is  titled "Three machines" and is exhibited in the  Young Mueseum in San Francisco.

Thiebaud, a Sacramento State alumnus, was only known locally until 1962, when a Manhattan art dealer gave him a one-man show.  He was known for his paintings of pie, candy, cake and lollipops, later adding landscapes and San Francisco streetscapes.  A couple of years ago, one of his paintings brought a record price of $ 4.52 million.

From Wikipedia we learrn:

 Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo." He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.