Starboat (Tugboat and Riverboat)
Artist
Wayne Thiebaud
(American, 1920 - 2021)
Date1966
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 28 1/16 x 20 1/8 inches (71.28 x 51.12 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (74.3 x 53.98 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (74.3 x 53.98 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. C. Humbert Tinsman Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. James E. C. Tinsman in memory of C. Humbert and Julia Tinsman
Object number2002.12.12
SignedLower left obverse, inscribed in paint: "Thiebaud 1966"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA tugboat is positioned in the center of the canvas with a clear reflection of it in the calm water below. A star is clearly indicated on the smoke stack. The stack is red and black, the end of the boat blue, the water pale yellow, and the sky, a pale grey.Exhibition HistoryAspects of a New Realism, Milwaukee
Art Center, June 21-August 10, 1969, no cat.
Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, September 12-November 10, 1985, no cat.
Alumni Exhibition In Celebration, Princeton University, February 22-June 8, 1997, no cat.
Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, June 6-August 31, 2003, unnumbered.
Starboat (Tugboat and Riverboat) is painted with the same strong colors and thick impasto (thickly applied paint) that characterize most of Thiebaud's works. While his work has been associated with Pop art because of its focus on the everyday objects of popular culture, Thiebaud sees his art as part of a long tradition of realist art.
Julia and Humbert Tinsman, Shawnee Mission, KS;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1966.
Michelle Bolton King, ed. Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting (Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003): unnumbered.
Copyright© Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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