June Wayne
June Claire Wayne, born June Claire Kline ( born March 7, 1918 in Chicago, † August 23 2011 in Hollywood) was an American painter and graphic artist. With the founding of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1960 in Los Angeles, she contributed to the revival of the art form lithography in the United States.
Life and work
June Wayne grew up with her mother Dorothy Alice Kline and her widowed grandmother in Chicago. Dorothy Kline originally came from Russia and had immigrated as a child in the United States. After one year of marriage, she had divorced by June Wayne's father Albert Lavine and deserved since as commercial agent for corsets their livelihood. She would later become a popular motif of the works of their daughter. Wayne developed an early interest in color and optical effects. At the age of nine she began to paint an illustrated edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, for a translation of Persian poems of Edward FitzGerald. This project led her away for several years. The combination of painting and poetry became a recurring theme of her artistic work. Wayne attended Senn High School, but ran away from school at age 15 to become an artist. Although she passed the entrance exam to study at the University of Chicago, she decided against the college visit. Instead, she left her parents' house and looked for work in various factories. Nevertheless, she maintained contact with scholars and artists on campus, they had introduced to the works of Franz Kafka and Beethoven, among others. In 1935 Wayne Avenue in the gallery in Chicago her first solo exhibition, where it was under the name June Clair watercolors. She was then invited by the Mexican Board of Public Education to an exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Then they go back to Chicago. From 1937 to 1938 she worked in a gallery at Marshall Field & Company, where she arranged images for exhibitions and sold. The following year, she participated in a painting project of the WPA and was part of the Künster scene of Chicago. So she was friends with, among others, Julio de Diego, Arthur Lidov, Sidney Loeb, Mitchell Siporin, Bernard Rosenthal and Emerson Woelffer.
1939 Wayne moved to New York. There she worked as a fashion jewelery designer and jewelery designed for the mass production of metal, wood, leather, glass and imitation gemstones. In her spare time, she continued painting and participated in group exhibitions. In 1941 she married the military doctor George Wayne, who was sent shortly thereafter as part of the Second World War, a war mission to Burma. Wayne, who suffered from rheumatic fever in the following year stopped temporarily on painting and moved to Los Angeles. There she attended the Art Center School Caltech and settled in the area of Production certify illustration. This made it possible for her to find work in the aerospace industry for which they anfertigte from blueprints drawings. In 1943, she moved to Chicago, where she worked as a script writer at the radio station WGN. 1944 returned her husband returned from overseas and in the same year came their daughter to the world. After that they lived on various military bases, to George Wayne 1946 was discharged from the army and they finally settled in Los Angeles.
Once there, June Wayne went in the California art scene a name. In her paintings she experimented with optical effects and symbols. For her work, among other things psychiatrist and later art critic Jules Langsner (1911-1967), which asked at this time as Wayne with the relationship between science and art interested. Wayne participated turn of his art historical knowledge and they became friends. In 1947 she attended a graphic workshop at Lynton Kistler ( 1897-1993 ) and deepened her knowledge of the technique of lithography. There was a creative production phase with numerous exhibitions, with their Wayne lithographs often created in collaboration with Kistler. In his studio, she met the artist Clinton Adams know that should an employee in her workshop later. Wayne's first exhibition took place in 1950 after eleven years break instead of at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Almost all exhibited works - paintings, lithographs and structures - have been sold. A portion was then issued on loan to the Pasadena Art Museum, whereupon the Los Angeles Times June Wayne 1952 chose for Woman of the Year. In 1957 she went to Paris and worked with specialized printing techniques such artists as Marcel Durassier.
Then moved to Wayne in the Tamarind Street in Hollywood. In 1960, she founded there with the help of the Ford Foundation, the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, in which they passed on their knowledge of lithography. Their efforts and those of their students, which opened two more workshops, led to a renaissance of the art form in the United States. The year 1960 was connected to Wayne simultaneously with personal losses. Her mother and grandmother died and her marriage to George Wayne was divorced. It retained its name after the divorce. In the following ten years she widtmete the line of the workshop and brought himself no more new plants on the market. In 1964 she married Arthur Henry Plone, who died in 2003.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop produced Wayne and Terry Sanders in the summer of 1969, the documentary Four Stones for Kanemitsu. This Matsumi Kanemitsu and other artists demonstrate the emergence of a four-color lithography. The film was shown at the anniversary celebrations for the first time in 1970 and published in 1973. In the same year sued Sanders Tamarind and Wayne, because they had failed to mention him in the credits. This results in a ten- year period of litigation developed. In 1974, the film for an Oscar in the category was nominated Best Short Documentary.
In 1970, Wayne from the line of the workshop, who had recently renamed the Tamarind Institute of the University of New Mexico. She focused again on her own artistic work and exhibited regularly. In addition to lithographs and oil painting, she now began to deal with tapestries. She also was involved in the equality of female artists and gave special seminars for women.
Wayne died 93 years after a long illness in her studio in the Tamarind Avenue in Hollywood. Her estate is located in the library of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Work
At Wayne's works include oil paintings, lithographs and tapestries. After they mainly experimented with optical effects to 1947, their work was then representational. They first settled often inspired by the stories of Franz Kafka. Your Kafka Series contains with Cryptic Creatures (1948 ), The Cavern (1948) and The Chase (1949 ) both oil paintings and lithographs as The Hero (1949 ). In other works such as The Tunnel (oil on canvas, 1949), her daily life reflects in Los Angeles.
1958 Wayne made in Paris together with Marcel Durassier under the title of John Donne, Songs and Sonnets a series of lithographs, illustrated the poems of John Donne.
In the 1970s, Wayne The Dorothy Series created, a set of 20 lithographs, which is one of her best known works. Wayne chose her mother as a subject and processed memorabilia such as photographs, letters, documents and artifacts.
Many of Wayne's work are related to science. An example is the helix with Dusty (born in 1970 ) beginning 18teilige series of lithographs depict the DNA structures. Other images show atomic nucleus fissions or elements of organic chemistry.
Works by June Wayne are among other things in collections of museums National Museum of Women in the Arts, Norton Simon Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art