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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

Wayne Thiebaud

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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Muralist
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Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
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