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Note to the ReaderAcknowledgments

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# Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud, Park Place, 1995
*Park Place* (working proof 9)1995etching and drypoint in blackplate: 32 7⁄8 × 22 (83.5 × 55.9)sheet: 43 × 30 3⁄4 (109.2 × 78.1)Crown Point PressArt © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Wayne Thiebaud, Park Place, 1995
*Park Place* (working proof 13)1995color etching and drypointplate: 32 7⁄8 × 22 (83.5 × 55.9)sheet: 42 7⁄8 × 30 3⁄4 (108.9 × 78.1)Crown Point PressArt © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Wayne Thiebaud, Park Place, 1995
*Park Place*1995color etching, drypoint, spitbite aquatint, and aquatintplate: 29 1⁄4 × 20 1⁄2 (74.3 × 52.1)sheet: 39 1⁄2 × 29 3⁄4 (100.3 × 75.6)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,1996Art © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Wayne Thiebaud, Park Place, 1995
*Black and White Park Place*1995etching, drypoint, spitbite aquatint, and aquatintplate: 29 1⁄4 × 20 1⁄2 (74.3 × 52.1)sheet: 39 1⁄2 × 29 3⁄4 (100.3 × 75.6)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,1996Art © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Wayne Thiebaud, Park Place, 1995
*Park Place Variation*1995etching, drypoint, spitbite aquatint, and aquatintplate: 29 1⁄4 × 20 1⁄2 (74.3 × 52.1)sheet: 39 1⁄2 × 29 3⁄4 (100.3 × 75.6)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,1996Art © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

In the course of creating *Park Place*, Thiebaud made an irrevocable decision: he had the print’s multiple plates trimmed down at the top, right, and bottom (compare proofs 9 and 13 with the final print; see slideshow, above). With no building on the right and less ground in the forefront, the final print intensifies the sense of plunging into the scene. For the work’s palette, however, Thiebaud avoided committing to a single choice — he published the identical image in full color, in black, and in red and black.

Banner image: Detail, Pat Steir, *Kweilin Dreaming* 88, 1998, color woodcut with hand-painting and pen-and-ink drawing on silk mounted to paper, Crown Point Press, © Pat Steir

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Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)

Wayne Thiebaud in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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