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A multi-lane highway curves from the upper left corner to the bottom right edge of this nearly square aquatint and drypoint print. A row of sketchily drawn street lamps lines the top and right edge of the freeway. Black and white trucks and cars cast lapis-blue shadows on the charcoal-gray road. The artist wrote “Trial Proof III” in graphite in the lower left margin under the print and signed it with a heart and text reading, “Thiebaud 1979" in the lower right.

Wayne Thiebaud

Freeway Curve, 1979

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portfolio Title

Recent Etchings II

Medium

color sugarlift aquatint and drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 47.63 × 55.88 cm (18 3/4 × 22 in.)

sheet: 57.79 × 75.57 cm (22 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Accession Number

2015.19.3164

Artists / Makers

Wayne Thiebaud (artist) American, 1920 - 2021

Stephen Thomas (printer) American, active 1978

Parasol Press (publisher)

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: [heart] Thiebaud 1979; lower left in graphite: Trial Proof III

Marks and Labels

embossed lower right: Crown Point Press / Stephen Thomas

Provenance

Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2000; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Thiebaud, Paul

Exhibition History

2001: The Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001

2007: Looking for the "There There": California Art from the Collection, 1950-2000, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007-2008