Splash (State I)
Cross Current (State II)
Midnight Wave (State III)
July Wave (State IV)
June Wayne
State I: 27 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. (70.5 x 28.9 cm)
State II: 12 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (30.8 x 58.7 cm)
State III: 23 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (58.7 x 30.8 cm)
State IV: 12 1/8 x 23 1/4 in. (30.8 x 59.1 cm)
Color lithographs printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 20, 20, 13, and 10, 1975.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Van Doren Gallery, 1976 (States II, IV); Artemisia Gallery, 1975 (State II).
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, British Museum, Brodsky Center.
COMMENTS
In exploring water and waves, and other natural phenomena, June Wayne was above all an experimentalist. In Goodbye, Visa and other works, Wayne used her fingerprint as a medium to express the motion and composition of a wave. In the series here Wayne was testing whether she "could take the same image and, just by changing color emphasis, make it very different".
A perfectionist, Wayne never hesitated to destroy works which did not satisfy her aesthetic or artistic objective, no matter how long these works took to create. Most impressions of these four lithographs were destroyed by Wayne who retained only a few proofs.
