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June Wayne, My Palomar Series
18½ x 16 in. (47 x 40.6 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Judith Solodkin, assisted by Saba Daraee, and published by Solo Press on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 15,1983.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Knoxville Museum of Art, 1995; Pomona College, 1992; Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus.); Associated American Artists, 1988; Macalester College, 1986; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985; Associated American Artists, November 1985; Galerie des Femmes, 1985 (illus., invitation).
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum.
COMMENTS
In her My Palomar lithographs, June Wayne playfully tracked the adventures of a square through interstellar space and time. Given her interest in science it was fortunate that Wayne had moved to California, considered by many at the time to be an artistic backwater, in the 1940’s. Her studio on Tamarind Avenue in Hollywood was driving distance to the Jet Propulsion Lab (later NASA) in Pasadena and to the Palomar observatory in San Diego. She developed important friendships with distinguished scientists including Richard Feynman who had shared the Nobel prize in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics.
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