In the 1950s Thiebaud showed his early paintings at a drive-in theater in Sacramento, but he aimed for New York and, after a while, made it there. This painting (above) titled "Ripley Street Bridge" sold for over one million dollars during Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction in New York on May 14, 2011 His mother, Alice, was a wonderful cook and baker.” His Uncle Jess was a cartoonist. When he was a kid, he wanted to be a cartoonist too, and he did become one for a while. “Cakes, they are glorious, they are like toys.” Thiebaud One of his designs blanket our California highways "If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it." Wayne Thiebaud age 91 still paints every day.