I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
1977
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on Rives paper
Dimensions
sheet: 43.82 × 54.93 cm (17 1/4 × 21 5/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number
1981.7.9
Art Historical Context
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" is a 1977 color lithograph by June Wayne, printed on Rives paper and measuring 43.82 × 54.93 cm. As part of a portfolio, the work reflects the artist's deep involvement with printmaking at a time when the medium was gaining renewed recognition in American art circles. Lithography, with its capacity for layered colors and subtle tonal variations, offered Wayne a versatile means of expression that balanced precision with artistic spontaneity. Wayne played a key role in elevating lithography from a commercial process to a respected fine-art form. The choice of Rives pa...
About the Artist
June Wayne
June Wayne (1918–2011) was a pioneering American printmaker, painter, tapestry innovator, and activist whose self-taught brilliance reshaped modern lithography and championed women in the arts. Born June Claire Kline on March 7, 1918, in Chicago to single mother Dorothy Kline—a fiercely independent Russian Jewish immigrant who fled pogroms—Wayne dropped out of high school at 15 to pursue art. Her ...