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Uncle Jess was a cartoonist and drew funny pictures
Wayne decided he wanted to be a cartoonist too. |
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| Frank Wiggins Trade School |
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| Los Angeles trade school where he learned skills for illustrating advertising (posters, signs, lettering) |
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| United States Army Air Force |
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1938-1949 22years old wanted to become a pilot
Worked as a cartoonist in California and New York
Created a cartoon strip called Aleck for the newspaper
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| Apprenticed at Walt Disney Studio |
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| while in High School he worked as a “in-between” drawer sketching the action that came between the main movement Wayne did filling in cartoons of Goofy Pinocchio, and Jiminy Cricket. He made $14 a week at 16 years of age |
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| Married Patricia while in the Army and had a daughter named Twinka |
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| were little sketches or roughs that are done quickly to plan the whole picture |
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| Worked as an art director and cartoonist designing pages of the employed magazine. He created a comic strip that featured a little boy named Ferbus |
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| Robert Mallory worked at Rexall to support himself as a painter. Mallory introduced Wayne to painting. He gave him art books to read and critiqued his work. With Mallory’s help Wayne showed paintings in galleries. One painting was chosen for exhibit at the Los Angeles art Museum |
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| at the age of 30 in 1949 went to earn a college degree so he could teach art. As a veteran the army paid for his school. He mainly studied art history and education. He graduated in 1951 |
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Sacramento Junior College
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| 1951 got a job teaching. One student Mel Ramos became a Pop Artist and friend to Wayne and teacher |
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| 1951 he went back to school to earn his masters degree |
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| 1960 his second daughter was born. She was named for Waynes old friend and mentor, Robert Mallary. |
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| Because there were no art galleries in Sacramento Wayne once showed his artwork at the Drive in movie theater where he showed his artwork at the snack bar in exchange for free movie tickets. |
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| New York for a year (leave of absence) |
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| 1956 Wayne took a year off teaching to stay in New York and learn from a group called Abstract Expressionists. Painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. He earned money working for advertising agencies. |
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| A term coined by Wayne to describe the jumps and swirls of de Kooning’s paint. Wayne’s painting pinball machine shows de Konning’s influence. |
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| starting the painting with a sketch in a light color and then adding deeper colors, some of the layered paint showed in the outlines creating a “Halos” A style that was uniquely his. |
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| 1962 Wayne and some of his friends opened a cooperative art gallery in Sacramento |
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| Married her and adopted her son Matthew Bult. In 1960 their son Paul LeBaron was born |
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| California State University, Davis |
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| 1960 appointed assistant professor of art at UC Davis |
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| 1961 at the Artist Cooperative Gallery in Sacramento and it was a dud. |
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| his second show: Wayne had a one man show in a small San Francisco gallery and nothing sold. A critic wrote that “Wayne must be the hungriest artist in California” |
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| 1961 Wayne and Mel Ramos drove across country to New York. In April of 1962 Alan Stone offered Wayne a one man show. Everything sold. |
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| Wayne was linked with pop art but did not want to be lumped with Warhol and other artist. He felt Warhol’s images were flat, like billboards. Wayne wanted to portray real things clearly and with feeling. |
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| 1963 Friends and family sat for his drawing. He wife would pose to help him finish up paintings. sometimes ending up with her face on other models bodies. |
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| 1965 show Alan Stone gave Wayne a show called Figures. He continued to study drawing figures attending weekly drawing sessions in San Francisco. And hired models to pose for him and other artist to study the human form. |
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| Almost every morning when he gets up he draw a linear drawing of himself. He didn’t care how he looked in the picture. |
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| Late 1960’s he wanted to show the many ways of seeing the landscape in the same picture. He’s make several sketches and try to arrange them using thumbnails to arrange a composition. |
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| to make a lithograph Wayne drew directly on stone. The image was printed on paper in black and white. He would rework the prints, using crayon, pastels, watercolor, tempera, oil and acrylic. Surprising results occurred, how the image changes when rendered in color or black and white. |
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| traditional subject: People |
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| 1963 he returned to more traditional painting of people. His first painting was a fisherman, when I was sixteen years old. “I think an artist’s capacity to handle the figure is a great test of his abilities” |
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