Author Description

Instantly recognizable for their sensuous texture and warm, luminous palette, Wayne Thiebaud's images of cakes, pies, and other everyday objects brought him to international prominence in the 1960s. His food paintings explore society's fascination with, and ritualistic treatment of, certain culinary items. Thiebaud's formidable talents run to a wide range of other subjects, including figure studies, "aerial" landscapes, and eerily vertiginous cityscapes. This book of postcards reproduces thirty fine products of Wayne Thiebaud's skewed, sweet-natured, quietly dramatic sensibility