Tower of Babel A, 1955

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series Title

Fable Series

Medium

offset lithograph in black on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust)

Catalogue Raisonné

Conway 2007, no. 98

Accession Number

2015.19.3287

Artists / Makers

June Wayne (artist) American, 1918 - 2011

Lynton R. Kistler (printer) American, 1897 - 1993

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

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

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Levine, Marshall

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.