Wayne Thiebaud’s formidable talents run to a wide range of other subjects, including figure studies, “aerial” landscapes, and eerily vertiginous cityscapes, but the images selected for reproduction in this notecard set concentrate on his skewed, good-humoured, pensive take on the sweet stuff.
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20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box
- Card size: 5 x 7 inches
- Printed with soy-based inks on recycled paper
Contains five each of the following notecards:
Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970–1976
Candy Counter, 1969
Cakes and Pies, 1995
Suckers and Sweets, 2000
About the Artist
Instantly recognizable for their sensuous texture and warm, luminous palette, Wayne Thiebaud’s images of cakes, pies, and other ubiquitous store-bought foods brought him to international prominence in the 1960s. His food paintings explore society’s fascination with, and ritualistic treatment of, certain culinary items; Thiebaud paints what he has called the “tattletale signs” of our culture.