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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

Legion of Honor Docent Lecture

Highlighting work from across the beloved artist’s six-decade career, this exhibition features Thiebaud’s inventive reinterpretations and direct copies of famous artworks.

Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) became famous for his colorful paintings of American confections and buffets.

He was also a self-described art "thief" who openly drew ideas from and reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks.

An influential teacher at Sacramento Junior College and the University of California, Davis, Thiebaud never stopped learning.

He believed that art history is a continuum that connects artists of the past, present, and future. 

-- FAMSF: Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

Docent Kathryn Zupsic has been an art educator for over 25 years, working as a docent and lecturer for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, Legion of Honor, and SFMOMA.

She has given hundreds of presentations to adults and students in the Bay Area and on the Central Coast, and now heads up the virtual Art Talks program for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

A native of Portland, Kathryn has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Oregon and is a graduate of La Varenne chef school in Paris.

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