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Pastels

Date
1972
Material
Pastel
Classification
Drawings & watercolors
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 22 in. x 29 3/4 in. (55.9 x 75.6 cm)
sheet: 22 in. x 29 3/4 in. (55.9 x 75.6 cm)
framed: 25 3/4 x 33 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (65.4 x 85.7 x 5.7 cm)
Credit Line
Eliza McMillan Trust
Rights
© 2022 Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Object Number
37:1972
NOTES
Known for his renderings of luscious cakes, candies, and other popular consumables, artist Wayne Thiebaud offers a meditation on the nature of one of his favorite artistic mediums—oil pastel. His playful composition of scattered pastels leads the eye through a spectrum of color. The deep blue shadows cast by the cylindrical forms transform the white of the paper into the top of a drawing table.

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