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123 reactions · 11 shares | Feast your eyes on the colorful works of Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud in this celebratory retrospective. On view through August 7. | Crocker Art Museum | Facebook

Immortalising the style of 1960s counterculture in a timeless statement of painterly precision, Wayne Thiebaud’s ‘Children of the Sixties’ flawlessly renders siblings Jerrold and Amy Kaplan at a grand scale with the searing realism emblematic of the great master of the American vernacular. Employing Thiebaud’s distinctive technique, the children are circumscribed in a nimbus of bright colour. The work’s technical bravado reveals Thiebaud’s devotion to the Old Masters, particularly Velázquez, and