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1979
Artist, American, 1920 - 2021
Printer, American, active 1978
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
hardground etching with aquatint and drypoint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
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Dimensions
image: 50.8 × 33.02 cm (20 × 13 in.)
sheet: 75.57 × 57.79 cm (29 3/4 × 22 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3163
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2000; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2001
The Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
2007
Looking for the "There There": California Art from the Collection, 1950-2000, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007-2008
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: [heart] Thiebaud 1979; lower left in graphite: Trial Proof V
Markings
embossed lower right: Crown Point Press / Stephen Thomas
Watermarks
somerset / ENGLAND
Wikidata ID
Q77009844