The Sacramento River deltas and levees near Thiebaud’s studio became a source of inspiration starting in the mid-1990s where he would sketch en plein air and then work combined ideas back at his easel – personal emotions along with academic composition and elements in daring colors. “I was intrigued by what I could do to try to get some kind of image or self-relationship, which I hadn’t seen so much…As a consequence, I tried to steal every kind of idea—Western, Eastern—and the use of everything I could think of—atmospheric perspective, size differences, color differences, overlapping, exaggeration, linear perspective, planal and sequential recessions—and to do that with the kind of vision I talked about before, with as many ways of seeing in the same picture—clear forms, hazy, squinting, glancing, staring and even a sort of inner seeing.” Wayne Thiebaud quoted in Steven Nash, Wayne Thiebaud: A Painting Retrospective, 2000, p. 33.

Created in 2002, this drypoint and aquatint with direct gravure on Somerset paper is hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud (Mesa, 1920 - Sacramento, 2021) in pencil in the lower right margin.  This work is numbered from the edition of 20 in pencil in the bottom left margin.  There were also 10 artists proofs. Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Wayne Thiebaud Dark Hill River, 2002 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work):

1. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this purchase.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Wayne Thiebaud Dark Hill River, 2002 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.