The Witnesses
June Wayne
9 x 11 1/2 in. (22.9 x 29.2 x 5.1 cm)
Lithograph printed by Lynton R. Kistler on various papers of various sizes.
Edition of 25, 1952
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Associated American Artists, 1988; de Young Museum, 1956; Mac Nay Art Institute, 1954; Contemporaries Gallery, 1953; Society of American graphic Artists, 1953; Pasadena Art Institute, 1952; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1952.
SELECTED COLLECTION
Achenbach Foundation, Bibliothèque Royale, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Grunwald Center, Library of Congress, Pomona College Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum.
COMMENTS
The Witnesses prints are among the beginning works of Wayne’s Justice Series, inspired by Kafka’s The Trial, as well as actual trial she witnessed affecting someone she knew. In this image she sees the witnesses as prisoners of their own limitations.
—Robert P. Conway, A Catalogue Raisonné 1936-2006, June Wayne - The Art of Everything, 2007.
