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Jawbreaker Machine

Artist Wayne Thiebaud (American, 1920 - 2021)
Date1963
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 26 x 31 1/2 inches (66.04 x 80.01 cm)
Framed: 26 5/8 x 32 5/16 x 1 7/8 inches (67.63 x 82.07 x 4.76 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Glenn through the Friends of Art
Object numberF65-46
Signedu.r.: "Thiebaud 1963"
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • L3
Collections
DescriptionAgainst a white background and placed on a yellow plane defined by orange-yellow-green line at top, red-blue-yellow line at bottom, dispenser, consisting of a glass sphere and a cylindrical metal base, of multi-colored chewing gum balls; on yellow base: label bearing red arrow between two one-cent symbols, above lever pushed to right, below opening; dark blue shadow left rear of base; upper left: TO MAGGIE AND ALLAN (heart symbol).Exhibition History

Wayne Thiebaud, The Pasadena Art Museum, 1968, no. 13.

Wayne Thiebaud, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, November 11-December 15, 1968.

Wayne Thiebaud Survey 1947-1976, Oakland Museum November 19, 1976-January 12, 1977, University of Southern California Art Galleries, January 31-March 6, 1977, Des Moines Art Center, April 5-May 15, 1977, no cat.

Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 12, 1985-November 9, 1986. Milwaukee Art Museum, April 11-June 1, 1986, Columbus Museum of Art, July 19-August 31, 1986, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, September 24-November 9, 1986, no. 10.

POP Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 13-December 15, 1991, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, January 23-April 19, 1992, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, June 23-September 14, 1992, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, October 23, 1992-January 24, 1993, no. 64.

The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, April 7-June 18, 2000; San Jose Museum of Art, September 2-October 22, 2000, unnumbered.

A Century of the American Dream, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, November 23, 2000-January 28, 2001; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, February 7-March 25, 2001, hors cat.

Les Années Pop, Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, March 7-June 18, 2001.

Wayne Thiebaud: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, June 6-August 31, 2003, 24-25, (repro.).

Provenance

The Artist;

His gift to Allan Stone, New York, 1963;

With Allan Stone Galleries, New York, 1963;

Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Glenn, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.

Published References

John Coplans, Wayne Thiebaud (Pasadena: The Pasadena Art Museum, 1968), no. 14, unnumbered.

Karen Tsujimoto, Wayne Thiebaud (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985), 63, (repro.).

Peter von Ziegesar, “Thiebaud Exhibit: Nelson celebrates acquisition with show for pop artist” The Kansas City Star (September 1986): 27.

Robert McVaugh, Dewey F. Mosby, Fifian Endicott Barnett, Picker Gallery, Abstraction, Non-objectivity, Realism: Twentieth-century painting (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1987), 19, (repro.).

artePop (Madrid: Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, 1992), 110, (repro.), 344.

Marco Livingstone, ed. Pop Art (Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1992), 110, (repro.), 280.

Mark Francis, Les Années Pop, 1956-1968 ex. cat. (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2001), 63.33.

Susan Landauer, The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, ex. cat. (Kansas City: The Kemper Museum of Conemporary Art, 2000), 12, (repro.).

Dana Self, Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting (Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003), unnumbered, (repro.).

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