🌇 Sunsets in San Francisco never get old
In Wayne Thiebaud’s San Francisco cityscape paintings, buildings cling to exaggerated, plunging hills. The angled streets are often bisected by equally steep freeways. The Bay Area artist made many of these works from memory, referring less to any particular location than to his overall sense of the city.
“There are many different viewpoints simultaneously,” said Thiebaud. “The San Francisco pictures being a kind of composite of several different things at once.”
📍 See works by Thiebaud on Floor 2.
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[Wayne Thiebaud “Sunset Streets” 1985, Collection SFMOMA, Purchase with the aid of funds from public subscription, William L. Gerstle Fund, Fund of the ‘80s, Clinton Walker Fund, and Thomas W. Weisel © Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY]
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