Freeway Traffic

Details

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Freeway Traffic
signed and dated 'Thiebaud 1983' (lower left); inscribed '"FREEWAY" 5 Freeway Lanes' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1983.

Provenance

Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Private collection, Minnesota
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 7 May 1996, lot 41
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

B. Berkson, "Thiebaud's Vanities," Art in America, December 1985, p. 119 (illustrated).
P. O. Muller, "Are Cities Obsolete? The Fearful Symmetry of Post-Urban America," The Sciences, March/April 1986, p. 45 (illustrated).

Exhibited

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Newport Harbor Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbus Museum of Art and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Wayne Thiebaud, September-November 1985, p. 154, pl. 78 (illustrated).
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Group Show, January-February 1991.
St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art, American Art: The Fifties Through the Seventies—Minnesota Museum of Art and Area Collections, June-September 1991.

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Lot Essay

”I’ve remained interested in the city as a human enterprise, and the pile of human tracks it contains and the byways of living and moving. The making of mazes and roads, all the symbols of roadmaking..." - Wayne Thiebaud

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