In 1939, June Wayne moved to New York City, supporting herself as a jewelry designer by day and continuing to paint in her time off.
17 Facts About June Wayne
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June Wayne married Air Force surgeon George Wayne in 1940, and in 1942 he was deployed to serve in the European theater of World War II.
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June Wayne returned to Los Angeles when her husband came back to the States from overseas in 1944.
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In 1957, June Wayne traveled to Paris to collaborate with French master printer Marcel Durassier, who was the printmaker for artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall and more, first on lithographs illustrating the love sonnets of English poet John Donne and then on an artist's book based on Donne's poetry.
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When June Wayne met with Lowry in 1958, she expressed frustration about having to go to Europe to find collaborators for her lithography projects, printmaking at the time in the US more associated with posters than fine art.
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Lowry suggested that she submit a proposal to the Ford Foundation seeking money to revitalize lithography in the US With the foundation's assistance, June Wayne opened the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, in 1960.
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In 1970, June Wayne felt her mission was accomplished, resigned as director and arranged for the workshop's transfer to the University of New Mexico where, as the Tamarind Institute, it continues today.
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The double helix of DNA itself was a source for several years of June Wayne' image making in the early 1970's.
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In 1971, after the transfer of Tamarind Lithography Workshop to the University of New Mexico, June Wayne traveled to France.
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In 1984, June Wayne returned to painting, the medium with which she had begun her career in Chicago, and Mexico City as a young artist.
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June Wayne conceived and taught a series of professionalization seminars entitled "Joan of Art" to young women artists beginning around 1971.
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June Wayne was part of the selection committee for the exhibition Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, which opened at the Los Angeles Woman's Building in 1977 and featured the works of over 200 women artists.
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In 1982, June Wayne was among the first recipients of the Vesta award, a newly created annual award the Los Angeles Woman's Building bestowed on women who had made outstanding contributions to the arts.
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In 1999 at the time of her retrospective at LACMA June Wayne was honored by the Los Angeles City Council with the official proclamation initiated and sponsored by then Councilman Joel Wachs.
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In 2018, at the centenary of her birth, June Wayne was honored by the Los Angeles City Council with an official proclamation.
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In 2002, June Wayne became a research professor at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper.
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June Wayne died at her Tamarind Avenue studio in Hollywood on August 23,2011, with her daughter and granddaughter by her side.