Wayne Thiebaud obituary

Artist whose colourful 1960s paintings of cakes and pies evoked an earlier era of American consumerismFew artists can claim Willem de Kooning and Walt Disney as equal influences in their work. The California painter Wayne Thiebaud was one.Thiebaud, who has died aged 101, signed on as an “in-betweener” at the Disney Studios in Los Angeles as a teenager, filling in the backgrounds to Mickey Mouse cartoons whose figures were drawn by experienced animators. For the rest of his long life,