Tower of Babel A

1955

June Wayne

Associated Names
June Wayne

Artist, American, 1918 - 2011

Lynton R. Kistler

Printer, American, 1897 - 1993

The image features abstract figures composed of intricate lines and shapes, with a textured background. The forms climb a fractured, angular landscape. Some shapes of the figures evoke human-like silhouettes, with parts merging into geometric patterns or interwoven strands. The arrangement creates a sense of movement and exploration.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    offset lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust)

  • Dimensions

    image: 68.26 × 48.9 cm (26 7/8 × 19 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 78.58 × 58.26 cm (30 15/16 × 22 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3287

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Conway 2007, no. 98

  • Series Title

    Fable Series

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Moses Lasky, San Francisco, California; Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, New York, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Gilmour, Pat. "A Love Affair with Lithography: The Prints of June Wayne." Print Quarterly 9, no. 2 (1992): no. 33.

2007

  • Conway, Robert P. June Wayne, the Art of Everything: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1936-2006. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007, p. 112, no. 98.

Inscriptions

lower right on plate: June Wayne / August 55; lower left in graphite: 33/100 Tower of Babel A Fable Series June Wayne; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: ML 324 / B

Markings

embossed lower left: [June Wayne]; embossed lower left: [Lynton R. Kistler]

Watermarks

Old Stratford / U.S.A.

Wikidata ID

Q77010181

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