At Last a Thousand IV

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

At Last a Thousand IV

Entry/Object ID

2017.34

Description

galactic atmosphere, almost all white + some black

Artwork Details

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum; Gift of Belverd & Marian Needles

Made/Created

Artist

Wayne, June

Date made

1965

Ethnography

Notes

North America US Chicago

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

BL/Recto

Notes

Inscription Type: punchmarks (2)

Location

BR/Recto

Transcription

'2/15 [Title] Wayne, 65'

Notes

Inscription Type: graphite

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

space (composition concept), formal concepts (artistic concept), artistic concepts, reproductive prints, prints (visual works), visual works (works), texture (physical attribute)

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Objects Facet, Physical Attributes Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall; image

Width

29-1/8 in

Length

24 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Wayne held a lifelong fascination with science, and consumed texts and news about nature and space voraciously. At first impression, the At Last A Thousand series suggests the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb, a traumatic image circulated widely in the wake of World War II and ensuing global arms race, or a lunar crater. Yet the artist’s image actually depicts the migration and mass suicide of lemmings, a popular myth perpetuated by a Disney documentary at the time. Wayne produced the texture of the work using sand, salt, twigs, and other materials that were part of her signature studio experiments. The title celebrated the 1000th print made at Tamarind.