The Hero

June Wayne, Kafka Series
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Oil on canvas, 1949.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Art Center of La Jolla, 1954; Pasadena Art Institute,1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1950.

COMMENT
In The Hero June Wayne, as in Kafka, addresses our swirling energy patterns and the absurdity of many of our efforts. "He charges up the ramp, flops down to the next level, picks himself up, charges again, and when the story ends, there he is hanging by his flag over exactly the same kind of chasm as when he began.”
—June Wayne, from Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne: The Art of Everything” Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Sketch for The Hero

June Wayne, Kafka Series
27 3/4 x 22 1/8 in. (70.5 x 56.2 cm)
Crayon, ink, and collage on paper, 1949.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1969; Downey Museum of Art, 1969; Far GaHery, 1969; University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1968; Print Club of Philadelphia, September 1960; de Young Museum, 1956; McNay Art Institute, 1954; Art Center of La Jolla, 1954; Contemporaries Gallery, March 1953; Pasadena. Art Institute, 1952; Art Institute of Chicago, 1952; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1951; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1950.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation, Bibliotheque royale, Grunwald Center, Library of Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Museum of American History, Pomona College Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum.

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