Two Thousand Too Soon

June Wayne
30 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. (77.5 x 48.6 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Fred Genis and published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop on Hannemühle Etching.
Editions of 20,1967.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1973; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1969; Downey Museum of Art, 1969; Mostra Biennale Internazionale della Grafica, 1968; University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1968.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Brodsky Center, Fresno Art museum, Grunwald Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Norton Simon Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum.

COMMENTS
The image features lemming-people, an idea Wayne introduced in 1955 and explored in many subsequent prints. “I think lemmings are natural metaphors for human beings. I probably picked up the idea out of science reports… And there were intermittent cartoons about lemmings in the New Yorker in the 1960’s.” (Wayne to Pat Gilmour, 1991)