Century City
ON NOVEMBER 15, Wayne Thiebaud will turn 100 years old. On October 11, The Crocker Art Museum, in the celebrated painter’s longtime city of residence, Sacramento, Calif., opens “Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings.” The exhibition features 100 objects, created over the course of more than 70 years. Drawn from the Crocker’s holdings and the collection of the Thiebaud family and foundation, the works in the show represent every medium and period of Thiebaud’s practice—from early Ab-Ex influenced works to his iconic desserts, and up to his most recent series of circus clowns, begun in 2014.
The Crocker has had plenty of preparation for “Wayne Thiebaud 100,” the largest survey of
