Oral history interview with Wayne Thiebaud
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 53 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Thiebaud, Wayne
label: Interviewer
content: Larsen, Susan C.
label: Names
content: De Forest, Roy, 1930-2007
label: Names
content: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993
label: Names
content: Mallary, Robert, 1917-1997
label: Names
content: Wiley, William T., 1937-2021
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Thiebaud, Wayne
label: Interviewer
content: Larsen, Susan C.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) was a painter and art teacher from Sacramento, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 71 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2001 May 17-18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thieba01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Wayne Thiebaud conducted 2001 May 17-18, by Susan Larsen, for the Archives of American Art, in New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Thiebaud discusses his childhood in Long Beach, California and his evolving interest in art; his long time friendship with sculptor Robert Mallary who encouraged Thiebaud to become a painter; his career as an artist and teacher; and the creations of his paintings of food, objects arranged in display counters and paintings of contemporary people in plain abstracted space. Thiebaud recalls Richard Diebenkorn, William Wiley, and Roy de Forest.