At Last a Thousand (Tapestry)

June Wayne
86¼ X 108½ in.
Woven by Pierre Daquin at Atelier de Saint Cyr.
Cotton, wool, and wool with additional fibers.
EA 1, two examples extant, 1972.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014; Art Institute of Chicago, 2007; Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, 2005; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Pomona College, 1992; Fresno Art Museum, 1988; Security Pacific Bank, 1980; Cypress College Arts Gallery, 1977; Die Internationale Kunstmesse, 1976; Van Doren Gallery, 1976; Artemisia Gallery, 1975; Galerie La Demeure, 1974; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973.

COMMENTS
Here Wayne reprises in the unlikely medium of tapestry the atomic explosions seen in the lithographs of 1965.

 
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