Starboat (Tugboat and Riverboat)  1966
Wayne Thiebaud
Oil on canvas

Starboat (Tugboat and Riverboat) is painted with Thiebaud's characteristic sensuous colors and thick impasto.  The boat and its reflection are rendered with delicate brush strokes.  Sea and sky, boldly defined by a yellow and green horizon line, are laid out in broad swaths with a palette knife.  While Thiebaud's work has been associated with Pop art because of its focus on the everyday objects of popular culture, he sees it as part of a long realist tradition.

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