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hannah ([personal profile] hannah) wrote2021-12-26 10:42 pm

He'll be missed.

Wayne Thiebaud, passed at 101.

I always loved his work. I got a print of one of his landscape pieces at the SF MOMA just a few weeks into college, shortly after moving to San Francisco - even in small reproduction, even through the screen, the strokes are clear and strong, the paint its own player.

What I find oddest about this - beyond the thought that there's people I wish could've lived long enough for me to tell them about this because I know they would've made their own art in celebration of his life when they heard about his death - is that I wrote a scene dealing with Thiebaud's work in The Tiger is Out, and since the scene's set in the 2030s, I was hesitant to pick a date for when Thiebaud would pass, but now that it's happened, I need to go see if there's anything I need to revise for clarity and accuracy.