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June Wayne (1918-2011) was a painter and printmaker in Los Angeles, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with June Wayne, 1970 Aug. 4-6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864547

From the description of Oral history interview with June Wayne, 1970 Aug. 4-Aug. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122397068

Visual artist June Claire Wayne was born on March 7, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, where she was raised by her divorced mother, Dorothy Alice Kline. At age 15, Wayne dropped out of high school to pursue a career as an artist. She had her first solo exhibition under the name of June Claire in Chicago only two years later, followed in 1936 by a second exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. By 1938 she was already on the WPA Easel Project in Chicago and had achieved prominence among world-famous writers, actors, artists, and scientists in an international milieu in which Wayne is still active. Around 1939, Wayne moved to New York, where she worked as a costume jewelry designer while continuing to paint at night and on weekends. In the 1940s, she began to work under the name of June Claire Wayne. After Pearl Harbor, she moved to Los Angeles and became certified in production illustration, intending to work in the aircraft industry. However, when she was offered a job in radio writing at WGN in Chicago, Wayne seized this opportunity instead, scripting several programs a day and honing a literary talent that would later produce influential essays on art criticism, artists' rights, and feminism. When WWII ended, Wayne left Chicago to settle in Los Angeles, where she became an integral part of the California art scene. Inspired by her training in production illustration, Wayne began to produce seminal works of optical art, including The Tunnel and the Kafka series, in the mid 1940s. She continued to expand her artistic horizons, taking up lithography at Lynton Kistler's facility in 1947. Ten years later, she began collaborating with master printer Marcel Durassier in Paris. In their groundbreaking work on the John Donne suite, Wayne invented many of lithography's current techniques, vastly expanding the aesthetic potential of the medium. In order to restore the art of lithography in the United States, she founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop with the support of the Ford Foundation in 1960. Now known as the Tamarind Institute of the University of New Mexico, this organization continues to thrive and help artists become free enterprise workers in the print world. Wayne began designing large-scale tapestries in France in 1970, once again embracing a new mode of artistic expression. In this and many other media, Wayne explored avant-garde connections between science, art, and contemporary issues. Motifs as varied as optics, the genetic code, stellar winds, magnetic fields, tsunamis, and temblors figure in her work as complex metaphors for the human condition. Wayne's art is represented in many museum collections in the USA and abroad, and she has received dozens of awards as well as honorary doctorates in recognition of her innovative and prolific contributions to her artistic fields.

From the description of Papers, 1909-2000, bulk 1942-1997. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 51620371

June Wayne (1918-2011) was a painter and lithographer in Los Angeles, Calif.

From the description of June Wayne papers, 1945-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454463

June Wayne (1918-) is a painter and printmaker in Los Angeles, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with June Wayne, 1965 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80376623

Biography

Visual artist June Claire Wayne was born on March 7, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, where she was raised by her divorced mother, Dorothy Alice Kline. At age 15, Wayne dropped out of high school to pursue a career as an artist. She had her first solo exhibition under the name of June Claire in Chicago only two years later, followed in 1936 by a second exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. By 1938 she was already on the WPA Easel Project in Chicago and had achieved prominence among world-famous writers, actors, artists, and scientists in an international milieu in which Wayne is still active.

Around 1939, Wayne moved to New York, where she worked as a costume jewelry designer while continuing to paint at night and on weekends. In the 1940s, she began to work under the name of June Claire Wayne. After Pearl Harbor, she moved to Los Angeles and became certified in production illustration, intending to work in the aircraft industry. However, when she was offered a job in radio writing at WGN in Chicago, Wayne seized this opportunity instead, scripting several programs a day and honing a literary talent that would later produce influential essays on art criticism, artists' rights, and feminism.

When WWII ended, Wayne left Chicago to settle in Los Angeles, where she became an integral part of the California art scene. Inspired by her training in production illustration, Wayne began to produce seminal works of optical art, including The Tunnel and the Kafka series, in the mid 1940s. She continued to expand her artistic horizons, taking up lithography at Lynton Kistler's facility in 1947. Ten years later, she began collaborating with master printer Marcel Durassier in Paris. In their groundbreaking work on the John Donne suite, Wayne invented many of lithography's current techniques, vastly expanding the aesthetic potential of the medium. In order to restore the art of lithography in the United States, she founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop with the support of the Ford Foundation in 1960. Now known as the Tamarind Institute of the University of New Mexico, this organization continues to thrive and help artists become free enterprise workers in the print world.

Wayne began designing large-scale tapestries in France in 1970, once again embracing a new mode of artistic expression. In this and many other media, Wayne explored avant-garde connections between science, art, and contemporary issues. Motifs as varied as optics, the genetic code, stellar winds, magnetic fields, tsunamis, and temblors figure in her work as complex metaphors for the human condition.

Wayne's art is represented in many museum collections in the USA and abroad, and she has received dozens of awards as well as honorary doctorates in recognition of her innovative and prolific contributions to her artistic fields.

From the guide to the June Wayne Papers, 1909-2000, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Marian Gore "Art Scene" interviews and papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Henry Pearson [graphic]. Archives of American Art
referencedIn Papers, 1947-2004 (inclusive), 1957-2004 (bulk) Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Edward Biberman papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Prints & Drawing Dept. Curatorial Office Records of the Prints and Drawings Department, 1952-1996 (bulk 1958-1994) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The Clark
referencedIn Wayne, June C., 1918- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Tamarind Institute. Tamarind Institute records, 1959-[ongoing]. University of New Mexico-Main Campus
referencedIn New York Artists Equity Association records Archives of American Art
creatorOf Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1959-1971. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
referencedIn Inventory to the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Archives, 1971-[ongoing] Rutgers University Libraries, Margery Somers Foster Center
referencedIn University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for 21st Century Studies. UW-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies records, 1968-2003. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries
referencedIn Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931. Trade catalogs of artwork, 1887-1975. University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library
creatorOf Research material on Martha Jackson Archives of American Art
referencedIn Tamarind Institute Records, 1959-[ongoing] The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch
creatorOf Ruth Bowman papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Wayne, June, 1918-2011. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
creatorOf Wayne, June, 1918-2011. June C. Wayne : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
creatorOf June Wayne papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf E. Maurice Bloch papers, circa 1925-1989 Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Wayne, June, 1918-2011. Papers, 1909-2000, bulk 1942-1997. University of California, Los Angeles
creatorOf Tamarind Lithography Workshop records Archives of American Art
creatorOf An Evening with the Los Angeles Modernists Archives of American Art
referencedIn Paul A. Freund papers Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
creatorOf Clinton Adams papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf June Wayne exhibit catalogs and publications, Bulk, 1970-1999, 1950-1999 University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections
referencedIn Inventory to the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Archives, 1971-[ongoing] Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists
creatorOf June Wayne Papers, 1909-2000 University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
referencedIn E. Maurice Bloch papers, circa 1925-1989 Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Harold and May Tabak Rosenberg papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Cynthia Navaretta research files on women artists Archives of American Art
referencedIn Tamarind Institute Pictorial Collection, 1959-1997 The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch
Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Oral history interview with Clinton Adams Archives of American Art
creatorOf Oral history interview with June Wayne Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Irwin Hollander Archives of American Art
creatorOf Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews Archives of American Art
creatorOf Oral history interview with June Wayne Archives of American Art
Relation Name
associatedWith Adams, Clinton, 1918-2002 person
associatedWith Biberman, Edward. person
associatedWith Bloch, E. Maurice. person
associatedWith Bowman, Ruth, 1923- person
associatedWith Cummings, Paul person
associatedWith Gore, Marian L., person
associatedWith Hollander, Irwin, person
associatedWith Hollander, Irwin, 1927- person
correspondedWith Judy Chicago, 1939- corporateBody
associatedWith Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series corporateBody
associatedWith McGlynn, Betty Hoag person
associatedWith Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Navaretta, Cynthia. person
associatedWith New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project. corporateBody
associatedWith New York Artists Equity Association. corporateBody
associatedWith Paul A. Freund person
associatedWith Rand, Harry. person
associatedWith Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978. person
associatedWith Saltman, Molly, 1915- person
associatedWith Santa Barbara Museum of Art. corporateBody
associatedWith Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Prints & Drawing Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith Tamarind Institute. corporateBody
associatedWith Tamarind Lithography Workshop. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for 21st Century Studies. corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
California--Los Angeles
California--Los Angeles
California--Los Angeles
California--Los Angeles
California--Los Angeles
Subject
Art, American
Art
Federal aid to the arts
Lithographers
Lithographers
Painters
Painters
Printmaker
Women artists
Women artists
Women artists
Occupation
Lithographers
Women artists
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Birth 1918-03-07

Death 1991-08-23

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English

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