Thank you, Italo Marchiony!Who? Marchiony was the Italian immigrant to the United States who invented the ice cream cone. On this date in 1903, he filed a patent application for his mold.
We All Scream for Ice Cream!
Thank you, Italo Marchiony!Who? Marchiony was the Italian immigrant to the United States who invented the ice cream cone. On this date in 1903, he filed a patent application for his mold.
Even in black-and-white, Wayne Thiebaud's ice cream cones trigger mouth-watering thoughts of double-dipped delights.
As a teacher at the University of California at Davis in 1960, American painter and printmaker Thiebaud began to depict still-lifes of food, including pies, cakes, and ice cream. His everday imagery has caused some critics to compare him to such Pop artists as Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein … while other critics link him with the American Realist tradition and the work of Edward Hopper.
Source: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden online at http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Thiebaud_W/SSI.html
Pictured: Wayne Thiebaud, born 1920, Double Deckers, from the book Delights, 1964, published 1965, drypoint, 4 x 5 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Frank Lobdell, San Francisco.