Football Player (Primary Title)

Wayne Thiebaud, American, 1920 - 2021 (Artist)

1963
American
oil on canvas
Framed: 72 5/8 × 36 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (184.47 × 93.35 × 3.18 cm)
Unframed: 72 × 36 in. (182.88 × 91.44 cm)
85.449
Not on view
Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation
2018:" "Wayne Thiebaud 1958-1968", The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, California, January 16 - May 14, 2018

2016-2017: Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present, University Art Museum at Colorado State, Fort Collins, August 28 - December 18, 2015; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, July 30, 2016 - January 1, 2017

2012-2013: Pop Art Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective, Vero Beach Museum of Art, September 9, 2012 - January 2, 2013

1987: Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, The '50s & '60s, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, April 4 - June 21, 1987; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 25 - September 6, 1987; VMFA, October 6 - December 6, 1987.

1985: The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection of Late 20th Century Art, Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA, February 27 - March 27, 1985

1966: The Harry Abrams Family Collection, The Jewish Museum, NY, June - September 1966.

1965: Sports Festival, Loeb Student Center, New York University, January 19, 1965.
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