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- Birth nameMorton Wayne Thiebaud
- Wayne Thiebaud was born on November 15, 1920 in Mesa, Arizona, USA. He was married to Betty Jean Carr and Patricia Patterson. He died on December 25, 2021 in Sacramento, California, USA.
- SpousesBetty Jean Carr(1959 - December 12, 2015) (her death, 1 child)Patricia Patterson(1943 - 1959) (divorced, 2 children)
- He is an artist and teacher.
- He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1994 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- Early in his career, he was a Disney animator, sign painter and commercial artist.
- He grew up in Sacramento, California.
- He was a professor at the University of California, Davis for many years.
- [observation, at 92] All along you just keep hacking away at it. I didn't go to art school, so I worked my way through. When I started deciding to try and be a painter, I thought I'd better go to work whether I feel it or not, and that's what I've pretty much done.
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