Cinquième Vague

(Fifth Wave)
June Wayne
Tapestry
1972
Number 2/3 (two examples extant) Cotton, wool, and wool with additional fibers
85 ¼ X 77 ¾ in.

Cartoon designed by June Wayne; tapestry bears artist's signature woven in lower right corner
Logo of weaver in lower left corner Woven by Camille Legoueix (1923-1988)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2014; David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, 2013; Art Institute of Chicago, 2010; Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, 2005; Neuberger Museum of Art, 1997 (illus.); Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Macalester College, 1986; Occidental College, 1980; Pomona College, 1978; Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, 1977; Artemisia Gallery, 1975; Galerie La Demeure, 1974; Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1974 (illus.); Van Doren Gallery, 1974; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973 (illus.)

COMMENTS

“The design is based on a rubbing that Wayne took of her wooden floor, parquet-like in appearance. Against the background of this tiled floor, she placed the wave. The subject repeatedly intrigued her. Here she juxtaposed an irregular grid, patterned not with the longitudinal grain of the wood, but with the ends of blocks of various sizes, each one showing the parallel arcing and concentric lines that denote the age rings of a tree. For some, this background may also suggest the science of dendro-chronology, the use of tree rings to date events in the past. The interplay of the colors orange, red, black, and white is contained within an outer woven border, part of the tapestry, in off-white, black, and blue.”

—Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Curator June Wayne’s Narrative Tapestries: Tidal Waves, DNA, and the Cosmos, Exhibition Catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.