The Jury

June Wayne, Justice Series
18 x 14¾ in.
Lithograph, 1953.

COMMENT
“The hawklike head of a hunter draws from Herbert Read’s The Green Child, in which notions of truth and beauty revolve around the perfectibility of crystals.”
In preparing the drawing for the lithograph “I was trying to work out the problem of how one kind of image comes through another. It was very hard to make an eye that was convincing, that had energy.”
—June Wayne, from Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne: The Art of Everything” Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Jury—First Version

June Wayne, Justice Series
19 x 12 1/8 in.
Pencil, ink wash, and litho crayon on paper, 1953.

COMMENT
"The Justice Series sprang from what Wayne called the ‘emotional climate’ of Kafka's The Trial. Over a period of seven years, it gave rise to a large number of works in various media. This imagery suggests a jury box, housing (or imprisoning) five jurors, who are examining globes of light.”
—from Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne: The Art of Everything” Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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