June Wayne
Noon Self1973

Not on view

Artist or Maker: June Wayne
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 1918-2011
Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
United States, California, Los Angeles, founded 1960
Title: Noon Self
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1973
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 26 × 20 in. (66.04 × 50.8 cm) Image: 26 × 20 in. (66.04 × 50.8 cm) Frame: 29 × 23 in. (73.66 × 58.42 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Accession Number: AC1998.153.61
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Prints and Drawings
Curatorial Notes: Multidisciplinary artist June Wayne established the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in 1960. She modeled Tamarind on the structure of European printmaking ateliers, revolutionizing American fine-art production by recognizing and promoting the collaborative relationship between artists and printmakers. Tamarind relocated to the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque in 1970, where it remains a vital resource for the study and production of printmaking to this day. Noon Self is from a set of four self-portrait lithographs Wayne made at her Los Angeles studio, after her direct association with the Tamarind workshop. Featuring herself as the subject, Wayne employed variation in the inking, creating a unique range of saturation and tone in each of the four versions (others in this series are titled Evening Self, Night Self, and Déjà Vu). Surrounded by an ethereal atmosphere, her hair hovering like a halo, Wayne nonetheless projects an air of grounded command; the artist has made her eyes and brows prominent by carefully depositing heavy washes of ink on the paper.

Wayne was also a fierce advocate for women in the arts, seeking equal representation of women artists in museum exhibitions and organizing feminist art collectives such as the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists.

Claudine Dixon

2023
Selected Bibliography: Schillo, Eve, and Claudine Dixon. Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture; Ante Usted: La Captura del Ser en el Retrato. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
Copyright: © June Wayne Estate / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

June Wayne
Noon Self1973

Not on view

Artist or Maker: June Wayne
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 1918-2011
Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
United States, California, Los Angeles, founded 1960
Title: Noon Self
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1973
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 26 × 20 in. (66.04 × 50.8 cm) Image: 26 × 20 in. (66.04 × 50.8 cm) Frame: 29 × 23 in. (73.66 × 58.42 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Accession Number: AC1998.153.61
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Prints and Drawings
Curatorial Notes: Multidisciplinary artist June Wayne established the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in 1960. She modeled Tamarind on the structure of European printmaking ateliers, revolutionizing American fine-art production by recognizing and promoting the collaborative relationship between artists and printmakers. Tamarind relocated to the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque in 1970, where it remains a vital resource for the study and production of printmaking to this day. Noon Self is from a set of four self-portrait lithographs Wayne made at her Los Angeles studio, after her direct association with the Tamarind workshop. Featuring herself as the subject, Wayne employed variation in the inking, creating a unique range of saturation and tone in each of the four versions (others in this series are titled Evening Self, Night Self, and Déjà Vu). Surrounded by an ethereal atmosphere, her hair hovering like a halo, Wayne nonetheless projects an air of grounded command; the artist has made her eyes and brows prominent by carefully depositing heavy washes of ink on the paper.

Wayne was also a fierce advocate for women in the arts, seeking equal representation of women artists in museum exhibitions and organizing feminist art collectives such as the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists.

Claudine Dixon

2023
Selected Bibliography: Schillo, Eve, and Claudine Dixon. Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture; Ante Usted: La Captura del Ser en el Retrato. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.