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), 1970–1976
• Candy Counter, 1969
• Cakes and Pies, 1995
• Suckers and Sweets, 2000

• 20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box

• Printed in full color on FSC paper with soy based inks

• High-quality 250 gsm card stock

• Soft white envelopes

Box size: 5.375 x 7.375 x 1.5 in.

Card size: 5 x 7 in.