Adja Yunkers

Adja Yunkers was an American abstract painter and printmaker. He was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire in 1900. He studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London. He lived in Paris for 14 years, and then moved to Stockholm in 1939. In Stockholm, he published and edited the arts magazines ARS magazine and Creation magazine. In 1947 he moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life. He held a teaching position at the New School for Social Research in New York while summers were spent teaching at the University of New Mexico. In 1949, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. During the 1950s he primarily worked in color woodcuts, introducing brushwork into the genre. In 1960, he began producing lithographs. He produced two important series of lithographs at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles―Salt and Skies of Venice. Yunkers died in New York City in 1983.

Works in Collection

32 works

21 Etchings and Poems

Pierre Alechinsky

1951–60, published 1960

Aegean I from Artists and Writers Protest against the War...

Adja Yunkers

1966, published 1967

Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam

Rudolf Baranik

1966–67, published 1967

Blue Children

Adja Yunkers

1942

Calligraphy

Adja Yunkers

1960

Composition I

Adja Yunkers

1960

Composition II

Adja Yunkers

1960

Dead Bird

Adja Yunkers

1947

Hour of the Dog

Adja Yunkers

1961

I for the unpublished book Salt

Adja Yunkers

1960

I fromSkies of Venice

Adja Yunkers

1960

II for the unpublished book Salt

Adja Yunkers

1960

II fromSkies of Venice

Adja Yunkers

1960

III for the unpublished book Salt

Adja Yunkers

1960

III fromSkies of Venice

Adja Yunkers

1960

IV for the unpublished book Salt

Adja Yunkers

1960

IV from the series Skies of Venice

Adja Yunkers

1960

IX from the series Skies of Venice

Adja Yunkers

1960

In-text plate (folio 24) from 21 Etchings and Poems

Adja Yunkers

1960

Las Lolitas

Adja Yunkers

1952

Little Landscape

Adja Yunkers

1960

Miss Ever-Ready, no. 1

Adja Yunkers

1952

Moonface

Adja Yunkers

1960

Plates for the unpublished book Salt

Adja Yunkers

1960

Exhibitions

11 exhibitions

Jun 03, 1941 – Jul 18, 1941

New Acquisitions: European Paintings

9 artists

May 10, 1949 – Jul 10, 1949

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

132 artists · 2 curators

Sep 09, 1952 – Nov 16, 1952

Recent American Woodcuts and Prints by Marin, Hopper and Weber

32 artists · 1 curator

Sep 08, 1954 – Nov 28, 1954

American Prints of the 20th Century

111 artists · 1 curator

Nov 20, 1962 – Jan 13, 1963

Recent Acquisitions

77 artists

Apr 29, 1969 – Sep 01, 1969

Tamarind: Homage to Lithography

62 artists · 2 curators

Jun 18, 1969 – Oct 05, 1969

The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation

43 artists · 2 curators

Jun 26, 1972 – Sep 15, 1972

Prints for Collectors

36 artists · 1 curator

May 10, 1974 – Aug 11, 1974

Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn

32 artists · 1 curator

Dec 03, 1974 – Mar 03, 1975

American Prints: 1913–1963

84 artists · 2 curators

Mar 03, 1983 – May 15, 1983

Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

128 artists · 1 curator