June Wayne
June Claire Wayne , born June Claire Kline (born March 7, 1918 in Chicago , † August 23, 2011 in Hollywood ) was an American painter and graphic artist. By founding the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in 1960, she contributed to the resurgence of the lithography art form in the United States.
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June Wayne grew up with her mother, Dorothy Alice Kline, and her widowed grandmother in Chicago. Dorothy Kline was originally from Russia and immigrated to the United States as a child. After a year of marriage, she had divorced June Wayne's father, Albert Lavine, and has since made a living as a salesman for corsets . It would later become a popular motif for her daughter's works. Wayne developed an early interest in colors and optical effects. At the age of nine she began to paint an illustrated edition of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , based on a translation of Persian poems by Edward FitzGerald . She continued this project for several years. The connection between painting and poetry became a recurring theme in her artistic work. Wayne attended Senn High School but dropped out of school at 15 to become an artist. Although she passed the entrance exam to study at the University of Chicago , she decided not to attend college. Instead, she left home and looked for work in various factories. Nevertheless, she kept in contact with scientists and artists on campus, who introduced her to the works of Franz Kafka and Beethoven , among others . In 1935 Wayne had her first solo exhibition at the Boulevard Gallery in Chicago, where she showed watercolors under the name June Clair. She was then invited to an exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes by the Mexican Public Education Authority . Then she will return to Chicago. From 1937 to 1938 she worked in a gallery at Marshall Field & Company, where she arranged and sold paintings for exhibitions. The following year she took part in a WPA painting project and became part of the Chicago art scene . She was friends with Julio de Diego, Arthur Lidov, Sidney Loeb, Mitchell Siporin, Bernard Rosenthal and Emerson Woelffer, among others.
In 1939 Wayne went to New York. There she worked as a costume jewelry designer and designed jewelry for mass production from metal, wood, leather, glass and imitation gemstones. In her spare time, she continued to paint and participated in group exhibitions. In 1941 she married the military doctor George Wayne, who was sent to Burma shortly afterwards as part of the Second World War . Wayne, who suffered from rheumatic fever the following year, temporarily stopped painting and moved to Los Angeles. There she attended the Caltech Art Center School and was certified in the field of Production Illustration . This enabled her to find work in the aviation industry, for which she made drawings from blueprints. In 1943 she went to Chicago, where she worked as a script writer for the radio station WGN. Her husband returned from overseas in 1944 and their daughter was born in the same year. They then lived on various military bases until George Wayne was discharged from the army in 1946 and they finally settled in Los Angeles.
Once there, June Wayne made a name for himself in the Californian art scene. In her pictures she experimented with optical effects and symbols. Psychiatrist and later art critic Jules Langsner (1911–1967), who, like Wayne, dealt with the relationship between science and art at this time, was interested in her work . Wayne, in turn, benefited from his art historical knowledge and they became friends. In 1947 she attended a graphics workshop with Lynton Kistler (1897–1993) and deepened her knowledge of the technique of lithography. A creative phase followed with numerous exhibitions, with Wayne often creating her lithographs in collaboration with Kistler. In his studio she met the artist Clinton Adams , who would later become a collaborator in her workshop. Wayne's first exhibition after an eleven year hiatus took place at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1950 . Almost all of the works on display - paintings, lithographs and constructions - were sold. A part was then exhibited on loan at the Pasadena Art Museum , whereupon the Los Angeles Times named June Wayne 1952 Woman of the Year . In 1957 she went to Paris and worked with artists specializing in printing techniques such as Marcel Durassier .
Wayne then moved to Tamarind Street in Hollywood. In 1960 she founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop there with the help of the Ford Foundation , in which she passed on her knowledge of lithography. Her efforts, as well as those of her students, who opened two more workshops, resulted in a renaissance of this art form in the United States. 1960 was also a year of personal losses for Wayne. Her mother and grandmother died, and George Wayne's marriage was divorced. She kept his name even after the divorce. In the following ten years she devoted herself to leading the workshop and did not bring any new works onto the market herself. In 1964 she married Arthur Henry Plone, who died in 2003.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop , Wayne and Terry Sanders produced the documentary Four Stones for Kanemitsu in the summer of 1969 . In it, Matsumi Kanemitsu and other artists demonstrate the creation of a four-color lithograph. The film was shown for the first time at the anniversary celebration in 1970 and released in 1973. That same year, Sanders sued Tamarind and Wayne for failing to include him in the credits . This led to a ten year legal battle. In 1974 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short Film.
In 1970 Wayne gave up the leadership of the workshop, which had since been renamed the Tamarind Institute of the University of New Mexico. She concentrated again on her own artistic work and exhibited regularly. In addition to lithographs and oil painting , she now began to work with tapestries . She was also committed to the equality of female artists and gave special seminars for women.
From 2002 to 2007, Wayne was Research Professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, a Rutgers University institution .
Wayne died at the age of 93 after a long illness in her studio on Tamarind Avenue in Hollywood . Her estate is in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles .
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Wayne's work includes oil paintings , lithographs and tapestries . After she mainly experimented with optical effects until 1947, her work became more concrete. At first she was often inspired by the stories of Franz Kafka . Her Kafka Series includes Cryptic Creatures (1948), The Cavern (1948) and The Chase (1949) both oil paintings and lithographs such as The Hero (1949). Her everyday life in Los Angeles is reflected in other works such as The Tunnel (oil on canvas, 1949).
In 1958 Wayne produced a series of lithographs in Paris with Marcel Durassier entitled John Donne, Songs and Sonnets , which illustrated the poems of John Donne .
In the 1970s, Wayne created The Dorothy Series , a compilation of 20 lithographs that is one of her best known works. Waynes chose her mother as a subject and processed memorabilia such as photos, letters, documents and everyday objects.
Much of Wayne's work is related to science. One example is the 18-part series of lithographs that began with Dusty Helix (* 1970) and depicts DNA structures. Other pictures show atomic nuclear fission or elements of organic chemistry .
Works by June Wayne are in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts , Norton Simon Museum , Museum of Modern Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art , among others .
Solo exhibitions (selection)
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Awards (selection)
- 1952: Woman of the Year, Los Angeles Times
- 1974 : Nomination for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short Film with Four Stones for Kanemitsu
- 1991: International Women's Forum Award
- 2007: Henry Hopkins Award
- 2009: Vision Award for Artistic Innovation, USC Roski School of Fine Arts Award
- 2010: Lee Krasner Awards, Hollywood Charlie Award
- Honorary Doctor of Arts from the International College, Los Angeles and London (1976); The Atlanta College of Fine Arts (1988); California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco (1988); Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia (1991); Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI (1994) and Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2005)
literature
- Mary W. Baskett: The art of June Wayne. HN Abrams, New York 1969.
- Robert P. Conway, Arthur C. Danto: June Wayne, the art of everything: a catalog raisonne, 1936-2006. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ 2007, ISBN 0813538246 .
Web links
- Literature by and about June Wayne in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- June Wayne at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The June Wayne Collection
- Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
- Biography on the National Women's History Project website
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Mary W. Baskett: The art of June Wayne. 1969, pp. 81-83.
- ↑ Chronology (PDF file; 54 kB) tobeycmossgallery.com. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ↑ a b biography junewayne.com. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ^ Mary W. Baskett: The art of June Wayne. 1969, p. 84.
- ^ A b c Mary Rourke: June Wayne dies at 93; led revival of fine-art print making. In: Los Angeles Times August 25, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ↑ Karen Wada: When printmaking which embraced as a contemporary art form. In Los Angeles Times on March 8, 2012. Accessed January 30, 2013.
- ↑ curriculum junewayne.com. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ^ Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. v. Sanders (1983) lawlink.com, accessed January 29, 2013.
- ↑ Paid Notice: Deaths. Wayne June. In: The New York Times September 4, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ↑ June Wayne Papers (Collection Number 562). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA oac.cdlib.org, accessed January 29, 2013.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wayne, June |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kline, June Claire (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 August 2011 |
| Place of death | Hollywood |