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Study of Cakes

c. 1965

Wayne Thiebaud

Associated Names

Wayne Thiebaud

Artist, American, 1920 - 2021

This painting depicts six cakes in two rows of three. The color scheme consists of black, white, pale yellow, and gray hues. The cakes are closely arranged in the center of the image, and they cast stark black shadows on a white surface. The cakes are all decorated differently; some have decorations on the top or decorative icing on the top or the sides.

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Artwork overview

Medium

brush and black ink and Chinese white on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of the Thiebaud Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

overall: 56.4 x 76.8 cm (22 3/16 x 30 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

1991.227.1

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 93.

2001

A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 108.

Bibliography

2001

A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 108.

Inscriptions

upper left verso in graphite: Thiebaud; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: WATERCOLOR AND CHINESE WHITE / ON BAINBRIDGE

Markings

BS: BAINBRIDGE COQUILLE 2

Wikidata ID

Q64634625

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