  
Exquisitely composed and luminous of palette, Wayne Thiebaud’s images of cakes, pies, candy, and other ubiquitous store-bought foods are meditations on what he has called the “tattletale signs” of our culture.
Thiebaud turns a formidable talent on diverse other subjects—figure studies, “aerial” landscapes, vertiginous cityscapes—but the gumball machines reproduced here bring us back to his pensive, good-humored preoccupation with the sweet stuff of American life.
Three Machines, 1963, by Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920). From the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 1,000 interlocking pieces. Puzzle size: 25 x 20 in. (Box dimensions: 10 x 13 x 1 7/8 in.) ISBN 0-7649-3723-5. See all jigsaw puzzles.
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