Wayne Thiebaud.

Wayne Thiebaud; Karen Tsujimoto; Washington (1985); 1st; VGVG; Folio; Not Ex-Library, Not Book Club, Not Print on Demand; Dj-Multi-color pictorial w/white lettering to front, blue to spine, almost no perceptible edgewear, brodart protected; Dj- White w/multi-color pictorial to front, purple + black lettering to spine, very minimal edgewear; Hb- Dark blue w/title blind stamped to front, gilt to spine, almost no perceptible edgewear; 207pps- clean, flat, numerous color plates; Endpages-Pink w/previous owner's name blindstamped to front endpage. A wonderfully ungimmicky,artist, Thiebaud belongs more to a classical tradition of painting than to the Pop revolution that first propelled him to national attention in the 1960s. Then, the sweet everydayness of his cake and pie pictures looked like cousins of Andy Warhol’s soup cans. But where Warhol was cool and ironic, Thiebaud was warm and gently comic, playing on a collective nostalgia just this side of sentimentality. He pushed himself as a