It's really a toss-up whether painter Wayne Tebo is more in love with food or with color.

His paintings of pies, cakes, donuts, gumball machines, scoops of ice cream, are some of the most vivid and well-known

canvases in American art. Sweet to look at, nostalgic. But more and more interesting, the closer you look.

This weekend, we wish Wayne Teboe a birthday cake as gorgeous and

delicious as any he has ever painted because on Sunday, November 15th, Wayne

Tebo turns 100 years old and is planned for the big day to paint.

Here he is talking to the Academy of Achievement in 2011

when he was a mere 91.

I don't like the term artist.

It's a term which I'm uncomfortable with, but I love the idea of being a cartoonist, a draftsman,

designer, a painter,

those are things which we make clear objective information about.

The idea of being a fine artist came very, very late.

It may make Wayne Tibu uncomfortable to be called an artist, but it's going to be hard for me to avoid during this episode.

His work is in the permanent collection of major museums.

He's been awarded the National Medal of Arts. His 1962 painting, Four Pinball Machines, just sold at auction for $19 million.

So, artist, it is. You'll find his bold, whimsical palette and thick layers

of paint elevating other everyday objects as well. Clowns, lipsticks, shoes, sardine cans. Then there are his streetscapes of San Francisco,

his rural California landscapes, and his quiet portraits of people at the beach.

Smithsonian magazine once called Wayne Tebo the hardest working artist in America.

But he always worked hard outside his studio as well, teaching art and art history

for decades at University of California at Davis, one of his many young students who went on to great success was Fritz Scholdt who helped create the new Indian art movement.

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