June Wayne
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| Born |
June Claire Kline March 7, 1918 Chicago, IL |
| Died | August 23, 2011 (aged 93) Los Angeles, CA |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Printmaking, visual art, tapestry design |
| Awards | Lifetime Achievement Awards from the College Art Association (2003), Los Angeles ArtCore (1997), and Neuberger Museum (1997) |
| Website | http://www.junewayne.com/ |
June Claire Wayne (March 7, 1918 Chicago, Illinois – August 23, 2011 Los Angeles, California) was an American printmaker, tapestry designer, painter, and educator. She founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
Wayne was born in Chicago in 1918 to Dorothy Alice Kline and Albert Lavine, but the marriage ended shortly after Wayne's birth and she was raised by her single mother and grandmother. Wayne had aspirations to be an artist and dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen to pursue this goal. Although she did not have formal artistic training, she began painting and had her first exhibition at the Boulevard Gallery in Chicago in 1935. Only seventeen at the time, Wayne exhibited her watercolors under the name June Claire. She exhibited work again the following year at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. By 1938, she was employed as an artist for the WPA Easel Project in Chicago.
In 1939, Wayne moved to New York City, supporting herself as a jewelry designer by day and continuing to paint in her time off. She married Air Force surgeon George Wayne in 1940, and in 1942 he was deployed to serve in the European theater of World War II. While George was in Europe, June first moved to Los Angeles and learned Production Illustration at Caltech, where she received training that helped her find work converting blueprints to drawings for the aircraft industry. She then moved to Chicago and worked as a writer for the radio station WGN, moving back to Los Angeles with George when he returned to the United States in 1944. The couple divorced in 1960, but the artist continued to use "June Wayne" as her professional identity for the rest of her life.
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