Wayne Thiebaud

Through his instantly recognizable visual style and subject matter, as well as his many decades spent teaching art at Sacramento City College and UC Davis, Wayne Thiebaud is arguably the most influential local artist of all time. A National Medal of Arts recipient and California Hall of Fame inductee, he is best known for his intensely colorful paintings of pies, pastries and other desserts. Thiebaud entered the national spotlight in 1962 when his work was included in one of the country’s first pop art exhibitions. Today, his paintings hang in the Whitney, the Smithsonian, the Crocker and many other museums and galleries around the world.