Dor
June Wayne, Cognitos Series
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Acrylic and gold leaf on paper marouflaged onto canvas with gesso and gelatin.
1984
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Private collection.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Pomona College, 1992; Armstrong Gallery, 1984.
COMMENTS
The thirteen paintings in the “Cognitos” series were created by June Wayne on canvases prepared years earlier by Douglass Howell, the accomplished papermaker. Each of the paintings is both a biographical reference to a friend or family member, and an allusion to planetary atmospheres and topographies, continuing Wayne’s exploration of the outer cosmos. The title “Dor” refers to the Artist’s mother, Dorothy, the subject of Wayne’s celebrated Dorothy Series.
Source: Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything”, Rutgers University Press, 2007.
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