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Gold Dredger, Sacramento

Creator: Wayne Thiebaud
Offered by: RoGallery

Description
Gold Dredger, Sacramento
Wayne Thiebaud
American (1920–2021)
Date: circa 1958
Watercolor on Paper, signed and titled in pencil
Size: 9 x 20.5 in. (22.86 x 52.07 cm)
Frame Size: 20.5 x 33 inches
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about Gold Dredger, Sacramento
This early watercolor by Wayne Thiebaud titled “Gold Dredger” Sacramento, was inspired by the numerous dredge machines that were present in the Sacramento River from the early 20th century on.

Dredging the operation of removing material from one part of the water environment and relocating it to another by a floating plant called a dredger. This was a cheaper and more effective way to sort through the river sediment to find gold. Sacramento is just an hour south of the Yuba Goldfields, the largest gold dredge in California. Thiebaud moved to Sacramento to attend college in 1950. After graduating he became an assistant professor at Cal State Sacramento. During a leave of absence in 1956-1957 he went to New York and met many of the abstract expressionists who were working there at the time. It is possibly the influence of these artists that inspired this abstraction upon his return to California in 1958.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Creation Date:	1958
Styles / Movements:	Modernism
Incollect Reference #:	837796

Dimensions

W.	33 in;	H.	20.5 in;
W.	83.82 cm;	H.	52.07 cm;

Message from Seller:

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