A survey of more than one hundred works drawn from this great American artist’s lengthy career. Thiebaud (born 1920) has long been a mainstay of California’s cultural and artistic communities. Since the early 1960s, he has shaped a personal artistic vision that embraces different subjects and stylistic variations but is always characterized by his blending of realism and abstraction, a penchant for dazzling light and high-keyed color, and a gift for painterly, sensuous handling of oils and pastels. Best known for his still life compositions of bakery goods and delicatessen counters with their distinctive brand of nostalgic Americana, he also has specialized in large-scale portraits, studies of Northern California landscape, and cityscapes featuring San Francisco’s vertiginous geometry of nearly-vertical streets and sidewalks.

The kinds of subjects of the images of the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) ranged from portraits to still lifes, from classical sculptures to contemporary nudes, some of which were overtly sexual and made him at least temporarily notorious. His most lasting legacy, however, and by far the largest portion of his considerable photographic output, is his portraiture which reflects and embodies the New York cultural milieu of the late 1970s and the 1980s. Within his roster of clients can be found a pantheon of many of the most significant artists, art dealers, writers, musicians, designers, dealers, actors and actresses of the period as well as a host of ancillary figures.