The Messenger

June Wayne, Justice Series
60 x 50 in.
Oil and sand on canvas, 1955.

COMMENT
“The heart of the Justice Series exists as a conversation between drawings and prints during these years, with its summation coming in The Messenger, the magisterial oil on canvas of 1955. It is interesting to note that the painting, Wayne's largest up to that point on her career, is one of the last three she made prior to beginning the major lithographic projects that would occupy her attention up to 1970.”
One of the jury members leaves the jury box to investigate what is happening in the capsule. "I spent a year making that painting in color, then destroyed it and started over in monochrome. Color was all wrong for the world I wanted ,to evoke. I don't regret losing that year of work because I learned so much from it."
—from Robert P. Conway, “A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne: The Art of Everything” Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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