Immortalising the style of 1960s counterculture in a timeless statement of painterly precision, Wayne Thiebaud’s ‘Children of the Sixties’ flawlessly renders siblings Jerrold and Amy Kaplan at a grand scale with the searing realism emblematic of the great master of the American vernacular. Employing Thiebaud’s distinctive technique, the children are circumscribed in a nimbus of bright colour. The work’s technical bravado reveals Thiebaud’s devotion to the Old Masters, particularly Velázquez, and