I didn’t know who Wayne Thiebaud was until I met Mr. Huffman. Thiebaud, a native Californian, is famous for his paintings of cakes and pies and diner and deli foods. More in Surrendering to ...

Thus, the seed for a family reunion was planted ... of his desire “to make a painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us,” the opening room is set to the sounds of ...

A new California law could help reunite the painting with a family desperate to get it back. Lilly Cassirer, a German Jew, had to pay a steep price to get her family out of Germany before World ...