Wind Veil, Stellar Winds 3

June Wayne
18.75 x 14.75 in. (47.6 x 37.5 cm)
Lithograph
Edition of 15
Deckled and torn edges. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil below image lower right; embossed with the artist's and printer's chops. Lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Year: 1978

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Pomona College, 1992; Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus.); Associated American Artists, 1988 (illus.); Macalester College, 1986; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985; Associated American Artists, November 1985; Galerie des Femmes, 1985; Northern Illinois University, 1982; Occidental College, 1980; Security Pacific Bank, 1980.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Bibliothéque National de France , Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Williams College Museum of Art.

COMMENTS
June Wayne (1918-2011) dropped out of high school in Chicago at age 15, and into a world of impassioned art and learning. She was by her own description an autodidact, and her curiosity and intellect propelled her into a circle of brilliant minds, where she operated as an equal. In the 1950's, at a time when New York artists were exploring an almost required abstract expressionism, Wayne was developing relations at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, later a part of NASA. She became close friends with Cal Tech Professor Harrison Brown, the eminent nuclear physicist, also known for his political activism, including arms limitation, natural resources, and world hunger. When Wayne's focus turned to the extraterrestrial world of the outer cosmos in her Stellar Wind and other series, she drew on the researches of JPL, and its library, headed by Theresa Bailey, who as a young student years before had asked Wayne if she might write her thesis on her.