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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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(see Francis Bacon)

Extra special thank you to the official Francis Bacon website, http://www.francis-bacon.com/ – an absolutly stupendous resource full of great and fascinating information, as well as a place to enjoy such an enormous selection of artwork! Please check it out!

I always enjoyed drawing, but I didn’t really ever go to museums as a kid, or have art books lying around; my first real experiences with museum artwork weren’t really until college, buying art history textbooks, and seeing slides in class. Francis Bacon’s Study After Vélázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) was one of the first pieces that was taught in one of my earliest classes, that really caught my attention.

Compared to everything else we studied, there was such a darkness and horror portrayed in the image, which really spoke to my interests at that time and place in my life (and still does!). The screaming, anguished Pope could be getting electrocuted in an electric chair. Little did I know Bacon had created this enormous body of work, beginning to expore this theme as early as 1946, and continuing to work at it for twenty years.

Preparing for my Brush with Peril comic, it was exhilarating to realize how many of these paintings he’d produced (around 50 of them), and fascinating to learn that he destroyed his paintings whenever they didn’t meet his standards. These pieces remain one of my favorite series of museum art ever produced, even though Bacon in his later life confessed that he found the pieces silly and wished he’d never made them.

It looks like some of his pope paintings were specifically labeled a “screaming pope” series (nice little article about them at francisbacon.com), but not others (perhaps they’re simply “grumbling popes,” or “writhing-in-agony-but-not-screaming popes,” or “irritated popes,” or “unpleasant popes.”)

Below I’ve included anything that basically looked pope-like to me, for comparison/similarity purposes. Notice the use of confinement-looking geometrical forms enclosing the pope or figure, as well as curtains that could be bars of a prison or cage, and thrones that could be bedposts or electric chairs. Notice the palette changing over the years, from bluish purples and golds, to greens and purples, to reds and purples, to reds and beiges. Notice the occasional inclusion of slabs of meat, or owls, and one monkey. Many of these objects, and many compositions like these below, pop up in other non-Pope pieces by Bacon. Notice the dramatic shift in his style of portraying a disturbing monsterish or ghoulish human anatomy, into more distorted, more-imaginary-less-photo-referenced-looking swollen or skeletal figures and faces around 1957-58, and then by 1959, he goes all in with this “cartoonish” blobby fleshy change in look, accentuated with his new color palette.

Bacon didn’t paint from life, he prefered to work from photographs, movie stills, and he even studied dental text books to get those horrifying mouths. His Pope paintings were inspired by these two below images (the first, the piece he sought for his work to “triumph over;” the second, he called “a catalyst” for his work:

In 1989, it looks like Francis Bacon’s Figure With Meat (1954) left its home at the Art Institute of Chicago to go on tour for an exhibit in Gotham City:

I wrote a review of the exhibit here. Jack Nicholson, as the Joker in Tim Burton’s film, Batman (1989), breaks into The Fluggelheim Museum with a gaggle of thugs, who deface one work of art after another. As one of his thugs brandishes a knife to slash at Francis Bacon’s Figure With Meat (1954), the Joker blocks the lunge and says, “Whoa! I kinda like this one, Bob. Leave it.”

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see Magritte’s Treachery of Images

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RENÉ MAGRITTE (Belgian, 1898-1967), a leading member of the Surrealists, caught my attention in high school, when I was old enough to drive an hour and a half to the nearest city and flip through racks of posters at malls. Such confusing but engaging imagery caught my eye there. Boxer hat-wearing men with apples floating in front of their faces? Trees with windows showing a hint of an everyday home inside? Humongous boulders floating, unmoving, over the ocean? Lovers standing cheek to cheek with sacks over their heads? Men looking in mirrors, and in the reflection, they see our vantage point of the backs of their own heads? Humongous apples or combs completely taking up the space of tiny bedrooms? I didn’t know what to make of these confusing images, but I couldn’t shake the imagery either. Surrealism sought to capture the reality of dreams and the unconscious mind. Magritte depicted ordinary objects in unusual contexts, or paired with things incongruously, challenging the viewer’s preconceptions of reality. His art and ideas have influenced pop, minimalism, and conceptual art, and Film Director William Friedkin says that his own iconic scene of the priest arriving at the home of the possessed child, in the Exorcist (1973), was an homage to Magritte’s Empire of Light.

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(See Magritte’s Empire of Light and Friedkin’s The Exorcist)

“The Empire of Light (French: L’Empire des lumières) is the title of a succession of paintings by René Magritte.^[1] They depict the paradoxical image of a nocturnal landscape beneath a sunlit sky.^[2] He explored the theme in 27 paintings (17 oil paintings and 10 gouaches) from the 1940s to the 1960s.” (from Wikipedia)

Here’s a helpful tidbit about the (confusing translation for the) series title, as explained by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for their 2018 Magritte exhibit: “The French title, L’empire des lumières, is ambiguous in translation, becoming either “empire” or “dominion.” In our catalogue, Sandra Zalman discusses the distinction: “While an empire exists in relation to a ruler, a dominion does not necessarily require this.”

(See Magritte’s Empire of Light and Friedkin’s The Exorcist)

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A SMALL Master LIST OF GREAT ARTISTS,
AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO ME, AND TO ART HISTORY
(in my opinion)

An important part of my art education was getting exposed to art, and finding work that spoke to me, and wanting from there to learn more about it and the artists who made it. Creating this graphic novel and studying art in this way completely surprised me by generating, by far, my greatest inspiration and excitement about art’s history that I’ve ever experienced.  My hope is that this project will expose you to art that affects you, that you’d like to learn more about.

As rich and significant and wide-ranging as all of art history is, it was necessary to narrow my study of it for this project; not due to a need to edit down my inclusion of art history, but rather because any story, let alone a comic book story, is necessarily narrative in structure, and certain styles and periods of art are less narrative by design. And so, as a result, I felt older periods were limiting and less proper in portraying people’s fashions, street scenes, living situations, or just simply non-religious imagery, in the context of my story of modern day spies. The same for more recent, more abstract modern periods, which were (for the most part) no longer representational in a way I could figure out to incorporate into the telling of my stories.

That said, I did my best to try and include as much, and as wide a history, as I could. These limitations meant perhaps a slightly-too-heavy preponderance of work from the (almost exclusively White Male) French impressionist and following post-impressionist periods, and for this I apologize. However, in my neglecting to include your favorite artists or favorite pieces, please keep in mind that these periods were still essentially influential and fascinating within the history of art, AND that this graphic novel is volume one of a multi-volume story, leaving opportunities for deeper explorations.

Below are – for me – a not-nearly-comprehensive-enough list of phenomenal artists, or at least artists with phenomenally fascinating (or horrible or despicable) lives, who were important to my artistic growth, or to creating this graphic novel, or (in my opinion) to the importance of the history of art.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1609-1669)
-Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903) 
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent (French, 1844-1927)
– Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass (1862)
– Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)
 – Cézanne’s Bathers
 – Cézanne’s Self-Portraits
 – Cézanne’s Portraits of Madame Cézanne
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
 – Monet’s Trains
– Monet’s Park Scenes
– Monet’s Seine
– Monet’s Water Lilies
– Monet’s Poplars
 – Monet’s Haystacks
– Monet’s Bridges
– Monet’s Cathedrals
– Monet’s Seasides
Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
 – Degas’ Self-Portraits
– Degas’ Horse Races
– Degas’ Ballerinas
Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895)
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) 
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) 
George Seurat (French, 1859-1891)
– Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884)
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
 – Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits
 – Van Gogh’s Portraits of Roulin
 – Van Gogh’s Bedroom
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
 – Gauguin’s Tahiti
 – Gauguin’s Self-Portraits
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) 
Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918)
 – Klimt’s landscapes
Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918)
 – Schiele’s Self-Portraits
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) 
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) 
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
– Picasso’s Early Work (thru 1897, age 16)
– Picasso’s Expressionist and Post Impressionist Influence (1897-1901)
– Picasso’s Blue Period (1901-1904)
– Picasso’s Rose Period (1904-1906)
– Picasso’s African Period (1906-1909)
– Picasso’s Cubism (1908-1914)
– Picasso’s Neoclassicism (1917-1925)
– Picasso’s Surrealism (1925-1932)
– Picasso’s Late Work (1932-1973)
 – Picasso’s Self-Portraits
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944)
Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) 
Marevna (Marie Vorobieff) (Russian, 1892-1984) 
Henri Rousseau (French, 1844-1910) 
Chaïm Soutine (Russian, 1893-1943) 
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)
James E. Allen (American, 1894-1964)
Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968) 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938)
René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967)
 – Magritte’s Paintings of Pipes (Treachery of Images)
– Magritte’s Dominion of Light (or Empire of Light)
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989) 
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)
– Hopper’s Houses
– Hopper’s City
M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) 
Giorgio Morandi (Italian, 1890-1964) 
Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986)
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954)
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) 
Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956) 
Mark Rothko (Russian, 1903-1970)
Francis Bacon (Irish-born, 1909-1992)
 – Bacon’s Popes
Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Lucian Freud (British, 1922-2011)
 – Freud’s Self-Portraits
Antoni Tàpies (Spanish, 1923-2012)
Cy Twombly(American, 1928-2011) 
Jay DeFeo (American, 1929-1989)
David Hockney (British, 1937-)
Robert Arneson (American, 1930-1992)
 – Arneson’s Self-Portraits
Wayne Thiebaud (American, 1920-2021)
– Wayne Thiebaud’s City Scapes

GENERAL ART PERIODS
African Art
Egyptian Art
Ancient Western Sculpture
Asian Landscapes
Medieval Portraits
The Renaissance
Ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints)

OTHER THEMES
An Art Exhibit in Gotham City
Artists Explore One Idea
Self-Portraits
Violence

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You can read about how I came to receive this letter from Wayne Thiebaud, on my page 00b – Back Cover – Commentary.

You can peruse my Small List of Great Artists to read more about Wayne Thiebaud or other artists who were inspirational to this comic book project.

 

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PAGE SIX:

Panel One:  Wayne Thiebaud, Hill Street (Day City) (1981), private collection.

Panel Two: Wayne Thiebaud, Freeways (1978), private collection.

Chris with Wayne Thiebaud’s Hill Street (1987), De Young Museum, San Franciso

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Splash Page: After Wayne Thiebaud, Hill Street (Day City) (1981), private collection.

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