Strange Moon
June Wayne
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Oil on canvas, 1952
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
de Young Museum, 1956; Pasadena Art Institute, 1952.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Private collection.
COMMENTS
“In ‘Strange Moon’ she determined the viewer’s eye-path by moving a floating disc across a field like an expanded chequerboard, debossing the stone to render the sequential lunar shapes with eggshell fragility.”
—Pat Gilmour, Founding Senior Curator of Prints at the Tate Gallery, London.
Print Quarterly, June 1992, Volume IX, No. 2, “A Love Affair with Lithography, the Prints of June Wayne”.
Strange Moon
June Wayne
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Oil on canvas, 1952
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
de Young Museum, 1956; Pasadena Art Institute, 1952.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Private collection.
COMMENTS
“The tiny lithograph ‘Strange Moon’ of 1951 preceded by a decade or more the Optical Art first seen by New Yorkers in the ‘Responsive Eye’ exhibition of 1965.”
—Pat Gilmour, Founding Senior Curator of Prints at the Tate Gallery, London.
