Three Things: Summer Treats Edition

With June comes the food of summer: popsicles, ice cream cones, watermelon; anything cold and drippy will do, really. This week, let’s write about the sticky sweetness that dribbles down chins and elbows, all in the name of summer.

Wayne Thiebaud, Four Ice Cream Cones, 1964. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.

Mary Pratt, Cut Watermelon, 1996. Watercolor on paper. Private collection.

Joel Penkman, Rocket lolly ices, 2011. Egg tempera on gesso board. www.joelpenkman.com

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Psst Twin Cities folk: We’ll be at Magers & Quinn at 7:30 pm tomorrow night to co-present Elliott Holt, author of  novel You Are One of Them. See you there?