Nacelle

June Wayne
22/33 x 29/43 in. (56.8 x 75.6 cm)
Lithograph
Edition of 15
Lithograph printed by Judith Solodkin, assisted by Saba Daraee, and published by Solo Press on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark. Bleed; deckle and torn; Titled, signed, dated, and numbered in ink within image lower right,- embossed with the artist's and publisher’s chops
Year: 1996

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Zimmerli Art Museum, 2003; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Brodsky Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum

COMMENTS
During World War II June Wayne moved from New York to California, and was certified by Cal Tech Art School Center in Pasadena as an aircraft production illustrator. She was simultaneously offered a job at WGN Radio in her native Chicago, writing music continuity and war bond interview programs, causing her to briefly return there.
(Source: The Art of Everything, Robert Conway, 2007)

Before departing Los Angeles Wayne completed an illustration of a Douglas DC 4. Five decades later, Wayne revisited her war time drawing in her lithograph ‘Nacelle’, “the forward struts of an airplane as a dramatic theme and central image. The reference is not only to her job-for-money during the forties as a production illustrator but also to her fascination with flight. For Wayne, the age of aviation was… an earnest yearning for space age travel to distant galaxies. Wayne also accepted the meaning of flight now and in centuries to come as an a priori context for her work.”
”June Wayne - A Retrospective”, catalogue essay by Arlene Raven, Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997.