Wayne Thiebaud: Confections Boxed Notecard Assortment

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. 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-humored. pensive take on the sweet stuff.Contains five each of the following notecards:Cake Window (Seven Cakes). 1970–1976Candy Counter. 1969Cakes and Pies. 1995Suckers and Sweets. 2000