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PAGE EIGHT:

Panel One: Detail from Lucian Freud, Self-Portrait (1963), National Portrait Gallery, London, and

Details from Gustav Klimt, The Bride (1917-1918), Belvedere, Vienna, and

Details from Gustav Klimt, The Virgin  (unfinished) (1913), National Gallery Prague.

Panel Two:  Robert Arneson, Breathless (Self-Portrait in Blue) (1976), Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City.

Panel Three: Lucian Freud, Self Portrait (1974), watercolor, UBS Art Collection.

Panel Four: Details from Paul Gauguin, The Seed of the Areoi (1892), Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Panel Five: Wayne Thiebaud, Apartment Hill (1980), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.

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LUCIAN FREUD (British, 1922-2011) had a massive exhibit called “Recent Works” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during my Winter Break 1993, and when I flew out and visited my sister there, we wound up in this exhibit, even though we stumbled on it, I wasn’t familiar wtih Freud’s work, and I wasn’t prepared for it. I was truly disturbed but fascinated by his work. The paint was thickly applied on his portraits in a way that appeared like sickly, discolored, mottled, rash-or-scab-covered skin. The subjects looked like ugly, rotting, nude corpses to me, many of them obese. The imagery felt psychologically unsettling, and it hung over me long afterwards. Even though it repelled me, I couldn’t shake the thought of it. The psychology inherent in the work became so obviously self-evident when I realized he was the grandson of FREUD. I later learned how his thick layers of paint could accumulate over hours and months or longer of painting, recording the large commitment of time from his subjects, as he fanatically examined and endeavored to reproduce every fold and blemish he could see.

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see A Small List of Great Artists :  ROBERT ARNESON (American, 1930-1992)

All through my college experience at UC Davis, Robert Arneson had a larger-than-life presence, even though he had passed away within a couple years of my arriving in town. He had been a UC Davis faculty member for four decades! His work continues to pop up on banners along the streets or on campus, in a mural in the downtown parking garage, in local art shows, and of course dotted all over campus as egghead sculptures.

So I feel like I regularly saw his work. It was certainly everywhere in the ether in the art building on campus too. That bearded balding white-haired man that was always portrayed making those “funny” faces. Bulging eyes. Sticking tongue out. Picking nose. Vomiting. It was just around, wherever I happened to be in town. But it never really spoke to me while I was studying art in college. Partially because I never found much personal attraction to sculpture. But partly, I think I found the humor of “self-effacing artist” just not to be that funny to me. I wasn’t really thinking about what it meant for an artist to be creating self-defacing work about being an “Artist.” I certainly never laughed out loud, or even smiled, I don’t think. It felt to me like it was trying to be offensive or edgy, but it wasn’t really that offensive or edgy. I was held back by quality of the artwork itself (kind of cartoony, kind of kitschy), and not really thinking about how that adds to the feel of the piece, not really reaching past to enjoy the message behind it.

I do remember, in college, seeing one of his sculptures, on campus, on display, that was of his home. It reminded me a little of how a kid might sculpt a model of their own home – simple, a little silly. That one I liked! I was kind of enchanted that he would choose his home as subject matter.

When I graduated from college, I realized UC Davis had never offered any info to me on how to make a living with a studio art degree, and I suddenly realized I needed to get a job, and what was I going to do? I wasn’t going to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer. So I found work at minimum wage, doing retail and picture framing (My degree, actually, helped me negotiate up from the then-minimum wage of $4.75 to $5.00! On my application, I just rounded up, and didn’t find out until much later that the managers deliberated and had to fight for getting me that $5, because it was unheard of for this retail outlet to waste money like that on some dumb employee!) Experience there worked its way up to me managing a framing shop back in Davis, where the owner regularly did work for the John Natsoulas Gallery. As a result, I wound up framing a few of Arneson’s prints, including a self-portrait he’d made in front of his Davis home, 1303 Alice Street, at the corner of L Street. I had to stop and take the piece in. Another framer there and I were looking it over, together. Yep, he lived here in town, and that’s his house, and he lived there for years. It’s the subject of a bunch of his artwork. That’s his address. You can drive by it and see it; it’s still there.

Something about this just captivated me, that he would draw himself in front of his own home. And then the image was covered with little details everywhere, little personal details about his life. About who he is (or how he wants to be presented, or thinks he’s perceived). It was an autobiography as much by the image as by the almost graphitti-style inclusions of weird textual and symbollic details. And once again, I was delighted by how personal I realized this autobiography was. It was an art piece that I thought to myself, Natsoulas Gallery is selling this, and this is a piece I could see myself wanting to save money and buy, and enjoy looking at on my wall.

I never bought this piece or any other art “like this”. But that’s really something, right?, to be moved enough by a piece to consider it, for the first time, when you’re a struggling artist making a little over minimum wage. To feel inside you that this is something special that moves you, that you want to support, to be more a part of, and make more a part of your life in this way.

When it came time to begin my Brush with Peril graphic novel, I really wanted to represent Arneson, EVEN THOUGH I still wasn’t quite yet a fan. And it was when I began surrounding myself with his imagery, and trying to draw it, I began to really have fun with it, and with him, and really appreciating him, as an artist, and what he’s SAYING. (What I THINK he’s saying.) What I think he’s saying is, Art is high-falutin’ and absurd and pompous, and I’m an artist, so I’m going to be an absurd and pompous high-falutin’ artist making fun of high-falutin’ absurd pomposity. I’m gonna relish in the absurd pompous high-falutin’ pomposity of it all. I think? This dichotomy of ridiculing the pomposity of “Art” and “Artist” while simultaneousy elevating himself to, and reveling in the pomposity of, being an “Artist.” As Mazzy Star sang, he made himself the “superstar of [his] own private movie.” I’m sorry I was too young, and time was too short, and I didn’t yet speak or understand the language, and I was too unaware to have worked harder to go out of my way to meet him. But that’s just life sometimes, that you don’t realize your potential opportunities you could have had until you’ve missed them. How lucky for us all that people like him created so much work that lives on for us to enjoy, long after they’re gone.

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GUSTAV KLIMT (Austrian, 1862-1918) was a symbolist painter (seeking to represent absolute truth symbolically through metaphor) and mentor of Egon Schiele, whose primary subject was the raw eroticism of female nudes. He was influenced by the flatness, spirals, swirls, patterns, and design of Japanese art, and he often included gold leaf that he’d admired from Byzantine mozaics. He found fame and critical success at a young age; visitors frequented his home, he was a lifelong bachelor with countless affairs (often with models) and fourteen children, and while in his twenties, he was awarded by the emperor for his murals painted in Vienna. Since I was young, I admired his work, but as I grew older, I found that it was his later work – landscapes of shrub-surrounded villas along the water, parks and lakes, or the trees of forests, with every little leaf or fallen leaf carefully rendered – that I found most awe-inspiring and moving.

Extra special thanks to www.art-klimt.com!

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Here is a list I compiled of all the art museums – including their locations and websites – to the best of my limited ability – where you can see the actual art that I referenced throughout this comic! Their websites are phenomenal resources for learning about all this great art! My sincerest apologies if you are a museum and I didn’t list you below or include a beautiful work of art from your great collection in my graphic novel! But I still love and appreciate you, Museum! All artwork is so beautiful!

Support and visit your local museums! Visit new museums when you travel or take vacations! And here’s a FUN GAME: How many photos can you take of yourself with famous art pieces, to re-create this graphic novel??

 

 

Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy
Andover, MA
https://addison.andover.edu

The Albertina Museum Vienna
Vienna, Austria
https://www.albertina.at/en/

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY
www.albrightknox.org/

Ambrosian Library
(Biblioteca Ambrosiana)
Milan, Italy
https://www.ambrosiana.it/

Anderson Collection
Stanford University, CA
https://anderson.stanford.edu/

Arkansas Art Center
Little Rock, AR
https://www.arkarts.com/

Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection
Los Angeles, CA
https://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/

Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Toronto, Canada
https://ago.ca/

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

The Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/

The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
www.artic.edu/

Arts Council Collection
Loan Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Art
Souhbank, London, England
https://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/

Ashmolean Museum
Oxford, England
www.ashmolean.org/

Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)
Baltimore, MD
https://artbma.org/

The Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia, PA
https://www.barnesfoundation.org/

Bavarian State Library
(Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) (BSB) Munich, Germany
https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/en/

The Belvedere
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
(Österreichische Galerie Belvedere)
Vienna, Austria
www.belvedere.at/en

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMFA)
University of California, Berkeley, CA
https://bampfa.org/

The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
(Museo de bellas artes de Bilbao)
Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
https://museobilbao.com/in/

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Birmingham, England
http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag

Brandeis University Libraries Trustman Collection
Waltham, MA
https://www.brandeis.edu/library/

Bridgestone Museum of Art,
Ishibashi Foundation
Tokyo, Japan
www.bridgestone-museum.gr.jp/en/

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Bristol, England
https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/

The British Museum
London, England
https://www.britishmuseum.org/

The Broad
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection
Los Angeles, CA
https://www.thebroad.org/

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org

The Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, OH
https://butlerart.com/

Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
https://cmoa.org/

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Fort Worth, TX
https://www.cartermuseum.org/

Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
www.centrepompidou.fr/en

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/

Círculo del Liceo
Barcelona, Spain
https://www.circulodelliceo.es/

City Museum Berlin
(Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin)
Berlin, Germany
https://www.en.stadtmuseum.de/

The Civic Museum of Giovanni Fattori
Leghorn, Italy
http://pegaso.comune.livorno.it/fattori/

Civic Museums of Art and History
Brescia, Italy
www.comune.brescia.it/servizi/arteculturaeturismo/museiartestoria/Pagine/Pinacoteca.aspx

The Clark
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
https://www.clarkart.edu/

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
http://www.clevelandart.org/

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, GA
http://www.columbusmuseum.org/

The Courtauld Gallery,
Courtauld Institute of Art
London, England
courtauld.ac.uk/gallery

Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA
https://www.crockerart.org/

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
http://crystalbridges.org

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
https://www.dma.org/

David Winton Bell Gallery,
Brown University,
Providence, RI
https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
https://www.denverartmuseum.org

Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines, IA
https://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
www.dia.org/

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Memphis, TN
https://www.dixon.org/

Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane, Ireland
https://www.hughlane.ie/

Edo-Tokyo Museum
Yokoami, Sumida-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
https://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/en/

Escher in the Palace
(Escher in Het Paleis)
The Hague, Netherlands
https://www.escherinhetpaleis.nl/?lang=en

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington , IN
https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/

Farnsworth Art Museum
Rockland, ME
https://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/

Faure Museum
(Musée Faure, Aix-les-bains)
Aix-les-Bains, France
https://www.aixlesbains.fr/culture/museefaure

Fitzwilliam Museum
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
https://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/

Flint Institute of Arts
Flint, MI
https://www.flintarts.org/

Fondation Beyeler
Riehen, Switzerland
https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/

Fondation Rau pour le Tiers-Monde
Zürich, Switzerland

Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection
Emil Bührle Collection
Zürich, Switzerland
https://www.buehrle.ch/en/

Fogg Museum,
Harvard University
Cambridge MA
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/

The Frick Collection
New York, NY
https://www.frick.org/

The Fukuoka City Bank
Japan

Galerie Neue Meister
(Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister-Staatliche Kunstsammlungen)
(housed in the Albertinum)
Dresden, Germany
https://albertinum.skd.museum/en/

Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
https://www.getty.edu/museum/

Georgia Museum of Art,
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
https://georgiamuseum.org/

Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries
Burrell Collection
Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/the-burrell-collection

The Glyptotek
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://www.glyptoteket.com/

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
(Museu e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)
Lisbon, Portugal, https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en

Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Venice, Italy
https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
www.guggenheim.org/

Guildhall Art Gallery
London, England
http://www.guildhall.cityoflondon.gov.uk/art-gallery

Hay Hill Gallery
London, England
http://www.hayhill.com/

The Hess Art Collection
Napa, CA
https://www.hesscollection.com/art/

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg, Germany
https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en

Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
https://hattongallery.org.uk/

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, CT
https://www.hillstead.org/

Hiroshima Museum of Art
Hiroshima, Japan.
http://www.hiroshima-museum.jp/en/

Hirshhorn Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/home/

David Hockney
Official works by David Hockney,
including exhibitions, resources, and contact information
https://www.hockney.com

(Robyn Buntin of) Honolulu Gallery
Honolulu, HI
https://www.robynbuntin.com/
closed in 2019

Honolulu Museum of Art
Honolulu, Oahu, HI
honolulumuseum.org/

Huntingon Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA
https://www.huntington.org/

Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)
Indianapolis, IN
http://collection.imamuseum.org/

Irish Museum of Modern Art
(IMMA)
Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland
https://imma.ie/

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/

Israel Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
https://www.imj.org.il/en

Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha, NE https://www.joslyn.org/

Kasama Nichidō Museum of Art
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.nichido-museum.or.jp/english/

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Washington University,
St. Louis, MO
https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/

Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, TX
www.kimbellart.org/

KODE Art Museums of Bergen
(Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway)
Bergen, Norway
https://kodebergen.no/en

Kröller-Müller Museum
(Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller)
Otterlo, Netherlands
http://krollermuller.nl/visit

Kunsthaus Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
www.kunsthaus.ch/en/

Kunstmuseum Basel
Basel, Switzerland
www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/home/

Kunstmuseum Den Haag
The Hague, Netherlands
https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en

Kunstmuseum Luzern
Luzern, Switzerland
https://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch/en/

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
legionofhonor.famsf.org/

The Leopold Museum (Die Sammlung Leopold)
Vienna, Austria
https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/de/sammlung

Liaoning Provincial Museum Shenyang, Liaoning, China
http://www.lnmuseum.com.cn/shengbowenenglishi/

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.lacma.org/

The Louvre
Paris, France
https://www.louvre.fr/en

Lowe Art Museum
University of Miami, FL
https://www.lowe.miami.edu/

Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester, United Kingdom
https://manchesterartgallery.org/

Mead Art Museum,
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead

Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
https://mag.rochester.edu/

The Menil Collection
Houston, TX
https://www.menil.org/

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)
Minneapolis, MN
https://new.artsmia.org/

The Modern
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
https://www.themodern.org/

Modern Art Museum in Stockholm
(Moderna Museet, Stockholm)
Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/

Modern Transport Museum
Osaka, Japan
closed in 2014

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal, Québec, Canada
www.mbam.qc.ca/en/

The Morgan Library and Museum
New York, NY
https://www.themorgan.org/

Munch Museum
(Munchmuseet)
Oslo, Norway
munchmuseet.no/en/

The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent
(Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst)  (S.M.A.K.)
Ghent, Belgium
https://smak.be/en

Musée Angladon – Collection Jacques Doucet
Avignon, France
https://angladon.com/english-version/

Musée Bonnat-Helleu
(Museum of Fine Arts Bayonne)
Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
webmuseo.com/ws/musee-bonnat-helleu/app/report/index.html

Musée d’art moderne André Malraux (MuMa le Havre)
Le Havre, France
www.muma-lehavre.fr/en

Musée d’art moderne André Malraux
(MuMa Le Havre)
Le Havre, France
http://www.muma-lehavre.fr/en

Musée d’Art Moderne de
Céret
(Céret Museum of Modern Art)
Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
http://www.musee-ceret.com/

Musée d’Orsay
Paris, France
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html

Musée de l’Orangerie
Paris, France
www.musee-orangerie.fr/en

Musée Maillol
Paris, France
https://www.museemaillol.com/en

Paris Petit Palais
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Paris, France
https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en

Musée Fabre
Montpellier, France
museefabre.montpellier3m.fr/

Musée Marmottan Monet
Paris, France
http://www.marmottan.fr/uk/

Musée National Picasso
Paris, France
https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/

Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía
Madrid, Spain.
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en

Museo Sorolla
Madrid, Spain
http://www.mecd.gob.es/msorolla/en/inicio

Museu de Montserrat
Catalonia,Spain
http://www.museudemontserrat.com/en/index.html

Museum Folkwang
Essen, Germany
https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en.html

Museum Ludwig
Cologne, Germany
www.museum-ludwig.de/en.html

Museum of Art (MOA)
Atami, Japan
www.moaart.or.jp/en/

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Providence, RI
https://risdmuseum.org/

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA
https://www.moca.org

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
(MFA)
Boston, MA
http://www.mfa.org/

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(MFAH)
Houston, TX
https://www.mfah.org/

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
New York, NY
www.moma.org/

Nationalgalerie
(Alte Nationalgalerie
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
National Gallery Berlin State Museums
Berlin, Germany
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/alte-nationalgalerie/home/

National Gallery Prague
(Národní galerie Praha, NGP)
Prague, Czech Republic
https://www.ngprague.cz/en/

National Gallery of Denmark
(Statens Museum for Kunst) (SMK)
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://www.smk.dk/en/

National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, Australia
nga.gov.au/

The National Gallery
London, England
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
www.gallery.ca

National Gallery of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
https://www.nationalgallery.ie/

National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
(Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna)
Rome, Italy
lagallerianazionale.com/en/

National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/

Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Nasjonalmuseet)
Oslo, Norway
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/

National Museum of Asian Art
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
https://asia.si.edu/

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://www.bellasartes.gob.ar/en/

National Museum of Western Art
Toyko, Japan
www.nmwa.go.jp/en/

National Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru
Wales, United Kingdom
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/

National Portrait Gallery
London, England
https://www.npg.org.uk/

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO
https://www.nelson-atkins.org/

Newark Museum of Art
Newark, NJ
https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/

Neue Galerie New York
New York, NY
https://www.neuegalerie.org/

Neue Galerie Graz
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Styria, Austria
https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/neue-galerie-graz

Neue Nationalgalerie
Berlin, Germany
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/neue-nationalgalerie/home/

Neue Pinakothek
Munich, Germany
www.pinakothek.de/en

The Newark Museum of Art
Rutgers University
Essex County, New Jersey
https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/

Noack Collection
Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Düsseldorf, Germany
https://www.kunstsammlung.de/en/home.html

North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, North Carolina
https://ncartmuseum.org/

Norton Simon Museum
Pasadena, CA
http://www.nortonsimon.org/

Ordrupgaard Museum
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://ordrupgaard.dk/en/

P. and N. de Boer Foundation
Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://deboerfoundation.com/

Palace Museum
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
https://en.dpm.org.cn/

Paris Museum of Modern Art
(Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris)
Paris, France
http://www.mam.paris.fr/en

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.philamuseum.org/

Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
http://www.phillipscollection.org/

Pinacoteca Vaticana
Rome, Italy
www.museivaticani.va

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
https://portlandartmuseum.org/

Museo del Prado
Madrid, Spain
https://www.museodelprado.es/en

Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Moscow, Russia
http://www.arts-museum.ru/?lang=en

Oskar Reinhart Collection,
Am Römerholz
Winterthur, Switzerland
https://www.roemerholz.ch/sor/en/home.html

Pola Museum of Art
Hakone, Japan
https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/english/

The John and Kimiko Powers Collection

Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C.
http://americanart.si.edu/

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

Rodin Museum Paris
(Musée Rodin)
Paris, France
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en

Rosengart Collection Lucerne
(Sammlung Rosengart Luzern)
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://www.rosengart.ch/en/welcome

Royal Collection Trust
Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK
https://www.rct.uk/

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
www.fine-arts-museum.be/en

Sabauda Gallery
(Galleria Sabauda)
Turin, Italy
https://www.museireali.beniculturali.it/galleria-sabauda/

Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts
Norwich, England.
https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/

Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
www.slam.org/

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
San Francisco, CA
http://www.sfmoma.org/

San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
www.sdmart.org/

São Paulo Museum of Art
(Museu de Arte de São Paulo)
(MASP)
São Paulo, Brazil
masp.org.br/

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
National Galleries Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/scottish-national-gallery-modern-art

Setagaya Art Museum
Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.setagayaartmuseum.or.jp/index_e.html

Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, VT
https://shelburnemuseum.org/

Sheldon Museum of Art
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
www.sheldonartgallery.org/

Sistine Chapel
Rome, Italy
www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezio ni/musei/cappella-sistina.html

Smith College Museum of Arts (SCMA)
Northampton, MA
https://scma.smith.edu/

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.sjnk-museum.org/en

St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican City, Rome, Italy
http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/monumenti/basilica-di-s-pietro.html#

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
www.staatsgalerie.de/en.html

The State Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org

Städel Museum
(Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie)
Frankfurt, Germany
https://www.staedelmuseum.de/en

Tate Modern
London, England
http://www.tate.org.uk/

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Tehran, Iran
http://tmoca.com/

The Thiel Gallery
(Thielska Galleriet)
Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.thielskagalleriet.se/en/

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum Madrid
(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional)
Madrid, Spain
www.museothyssen.org/en

The Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, OH
http://www.toledomuseum.org/

Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
Albi, France
http://musee-toulouse-lautrec.com/en

Trondheim Art Museum
(Trondheim Kunstmuseum)
Trondheim, Norway
https://trondheimkunstmuseum.no/

Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota
Duluth, MN
https://www.d.umn.edu/tma/

Cy Twombly Foundation
http://www.cytwombly.org/

UBS Art Collection
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/our-firm/art/art-collection.html

Universalmuseum Joanneum
Styria, Austria
https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en

USC Libraries
USC Fisher Museum of Art
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
https://roski.usc.edu

Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Salt Lake City, UT
https://umfa.utah.edu/

The V-A-C Foundation
Moscow, Russia
https://www.v-a-c.ru/

Von der Heydt Museum (VDH)
Wuppertal, Germany
https://vdh-museum.de/

Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en

Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)  London, England
https://www.vam.ac.uk/

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)
Richmond, VA
https://www.vmfa.museum/

Von der Heydt Museum (VDH)
Wuppertal, Germany
https://vdh-museum.de/

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford CT
thewadsworth.org/

Walker Art Gallery
National Museums Liverpool
Liverpool, England
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/

The Walker Collection,
The M. C. Escher Company,
Baarn, Netherlands
www.rockjwalker.com/mcescher/

Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud
Cologne, Germany
www.wallraf.museum/en/now/

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
https://thewalters.org

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
http://whitney.org/

Whitworth Art Gallery,
University of Manchester,
Manchester, England
http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/

Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, MA
http://artmuseum.williams.edu/

Winterthur Art Museum
(Kunst Museum  Winterthur)
Winterthur, Switzerland
https://www.kmw.ch/en/

Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT
http://artgallery.yale.edu/

Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/

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see A Small List of Great Artists :  Wayne Thiebaud (American, 1920-2021)

I was fortunate to take a few classes from Wayne Thiebaud at UC Davis, but even though I really enjoyed his classes, most of the time that I was there, – and even though I think back now about how much I learned that to this day still affects the ways I think about art – I sadly didn’t truly comprehend or appreciate who he was or his importance to my artistic growth or to art history until much later. I was just a dumb kid!

I had a roommate, and we had a running gag, where after class, I would say, “I just got back from class with the Famous Wayne Thiebaud,” or “Today, in class, the Famous Wayne Thiebaud said…” And so on.

There was one point where I didn’t get into a class of Thiebaud’s that I wanted, so I went to the office and got a form that would need to be signed by Thiebaud in order for me to get into the class. I took the form to Thiebaud and handed it to him with a pen and asked, “Could I get your autograph?” He gave me a look, and I could tell he was non-plussed – but he signed the sheet and I got into his class.

There was another point when he was releasing a new art book of his work, and he had a signing, and some of my fellow students popped out, bought his book, and got it signed. The next day at school, they brought their copies to share and look through, and I looked through and thought, that’s kind of neat, but I didn’t feel much regret for not buying one myself and getting it signed.

Flipping through these books, there were images of pies, and cakes, and dresses, and none of this art really spoke to me at the time. But there were a few images he had done of San Francisco city scapes, and I was thinking, What in the %&!$# are these?? These don’t look anything like all those pies and cakes! These are really amazing. Holy ?%&$#$!, I could get into these!

And then at some point, some art student friends and I popped down to San Francisco for a day at the art museums, and here were a few of these on the walls of these museums! And holy f&$%-ing !%@&?? again, these were pretty F?$#&-ing amazing! This is the same guy who did all those pies??

Here’s a great article on how Thiebaud’s San Francisco cityscapes came to be, and more, in the San Francisco Chronicle!

These city scapes are the art of his that really speaks to me, and absolutely floors me every time I see them, still. And he made such a huge body of work for this series. He began creating them in ernest in the 1970’s, and continued producing them for the rest of his life – fifty years. What an amazing bunch of paintings! I don’t get tired of them. He absolutely captured the impossibly over-crowded, dizzying, crazily-steep, illogically-perspectived streets of San Francisco.

When Thiebaud turned one hundred years old, his local museum, The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento hosted an exhibit to commemorate his work. The pandemic struck while the show was touring, and he passed away during that time, and as things opened up again, the show returned to the Crocker. My best friend, Corey Okada, wrote a blog about his visit to the show, and casually mentioned how Thiebaud’s city scapes share “an exaggeration of verticality” with Asian landscape paintings. I don’t know how I didn’t think about this before! Thiebaud’s city scapes are total modern progressions of an Asian landscape. Your eye can walk the path of these ultra-engaging and very enterable; you can just get absorbed in and lost in the reality it creates and invites you explore, and travel through them in all the same ways. But instead of mountains and trees cut through with dirt pathways sparcely populated with occasional tiny huts or people on mules, it’s mountains of sky scrapers cut through with crazily steep highways populated by tiny little cars.

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