Lemming’s Night
June Wayne
21 3/4 x 28 1/8 in. (55,2 x 71,4 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Serge Lozingot,
and published by Tamarind lithography Workshop
on Rives with Tamarind watermark.
Edition of 20, 1968.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997; Knoxville Museum of Art, 1995; Associated American Artists, 1988; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973; University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1971; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1969; Downey Museum of Art, 1969; Far Gallery, 1969; Mostra Biennale Internazionale della Grafica, 1968.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Norton Simon Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum.
COMMENTS
Despite the difference in methodology between artists and scientists, June Wayne (1918-2011) always regarded scientists as colleagues. She followed attentively studies of population growth, environmental changes, and a broad range of scientific discoveries.
In Wayne’s “Lemming’s Day” and “La Journée Des Lemmings”, 1968-71, human-like figures tumbled upon one another in their rush to the sea. In the lithograph “Lemming’s Night”, 1968, their activity in darkness took on an even more foreboding character. Against a backdrop of desert sand, twisted creatures pile up as they try to save themselves.
