Wayne Thiebaud papers, 1944-2001

Printed materials consisting of exhibition catalogs, announcements and invitations primarily from Thiebaud's later career and incomplete. Also found are photocopies of early comic strips by Thiebaud and numerous postcards, notecards, and greeting cards depicting Thiebaud's imagery. This series also includes a 1989 interview with Wayne Thiebaud conducted by Constance Lewellan for Crown Point Press and an undated press packet for A Piece of Cake, a short documentary on the artist's work.

One folder containing undated photocopies of teaching notes for a color drawing class Thiebaud taught at the University of California at Davis. Also found is a 1981 article Thiebaud wrote for the New York Times on the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi.

Fourteen photographs dating from the mid-1940s through the 1990s (color and black and white copy photographs) depicting Wayne Thiebaud teaching classes, and with various artists, including Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Estes, Gregory Kondos, Roy Lichtenstein, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Philip Pearlstein, Mel Ramos, Harold Rosenberg, and others. Also found are 4 x 5 inch negatives of photographs of artwork and the images above.

Original artwork by Thiebaud including ten cartoon ink drawings on plain copy paper, ten large format sketchbook pages (drawings on front and back on many pages) with numerous drawings in ink, graphite, or watercolor of his typical imagery of pies, cakes, tie racks, San Francisco street scenes, Sacramento Delta landscapes, many figures, storefronts, counters, and personal notations regarding color, light, and ideas for the transformation of his imagery.

Found here are several of Thiebaud's paint brushes, a paper palette with multiple colors of acrylic paint, plastic lids from tennis ball containers used for mixing colors, and a wrist watch with Thiebaud imagery.