Adja Yunkers Abstract Prints

Artist: Adja Yunkers, Latvian/American (1900 - 1983) Title: Pueblo Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, Signed, Dated and Titled in Pencil Edition: 70, Shop Proof Size: 33.5 x 25 in. (85.0...

Yunkers, Adja (American, born Latvia, 1900-1983). NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927. Miller 1. Color Woodcut. Edition of 250 published in Sweden in 1942 in the magazine Creation (Miller notes an ...

ADJA YUNKERS Summer in Venice, 1966 Lithograph on wove paper Signed and dated in pencil on the front 14 × 9 1/4 inches Edition of 250 (unnumbered) Published by The Print Club of Clev...

Summer in Venice Lithograph printed in colors from five stones on Italian "Pascia" paper, 1966 Signed and dated lower left in pencil (see photo) The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 43 for 1965 Printed by Emiliano Sorini, New York Condition: Mint Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches Sheet dimensions: 18 1/8 x 13 7/8 inches Original PCC label included (see photo) Verso: Print Club of Cleveland publsihers stamp, Lugt 2049b Adja Yunkers (1900-1983) A major twentieth century abstract painter and printmaker, Adja Yunkers studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris and London. His first solo exhibition took place in Hamburg in 1921. For a period of fourteen years, Yunkers lived and worked in Paris. At the outbreak of World War II (1939), he moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he edited and published the arts magazines, ARS and Creation. Adja Yunkers settled permanently in the United States in 1947. During the following years important exhibitions of his woodcuts, lithographs and paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The prints of Adja Yunkers are today included in the following collections: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Stockholm National Gallery, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Corcoran Museum, Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before 1960, the majority of Yunkers's graphic art was in the medium of the color woodcut. During the 1950's decade, he established himself at the forefront of American woodcut...

Echo in Grey Mixed media intaglio with embossing, c. 1980's Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo) Edition: 25 (24/25) Condition: Soft handling issues in top and bottom margin. Do...

The Adja Yunkers abstraction is a lithograph made in the first year of the iconic printmaking workshop Tamarind, founded by the great June Wayne (with Clinton Adams and Garo Antreasi...

Artist: Adja Yunkers, Latvian/American (1900 - 1983) Title: untitled Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen with Embossing, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 70 Size: 24.75 x 30 in. (62....

Adja Yunkers: 1900-1983. Well listed artist and printmaker. He was born in Riga Latvia and emigrated to the U.S. He is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim and Museum of Mo...

Red Echo Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). He studied art in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), but from 1917 to 1919 his schooling was interrupted by military service in the Russian army. Yunkers soon left Russia for Europe and traveled extensively for the next two decades, settling for long periods in Cuba, France, and Germany. During much of his early career, Yunkers was active in political as well as artistic movements. At times his political investments even outweighed his commitment to his art, and in 1936 he moved to Spain to fight in its civil war. When the war ended in 1939, he moved to Stockholm and began to focus on art making again. He became associated with the Swedish Surrealists and published three journals devoted to art and politics. These handcrafted publications signaled a strong interest in printmaking, and in the 1940s he made many woodblock prints depicting distorted objects and figural compositions that demonstrate the influence of German Expressionism on his work. In 1947, Yunkers moved to New York and began to teach at the New School for Social Research. After four tumultuous marriages, he married one of his former students from the New School, Dore Ashton, in 1952. Ashton became an art critic for the New York Times in 1955, and through her, Yunkers was introduced to the artists who would become known as the Abstract Expressionists. He began drawing with pastel directly on canvas, resulting in large-scale works that recall Color Field painting in their emphasis on the materiality of color. Expanding on this impulse, Yunkers's later work made extensive use of negative space, collage, and monochrome. The influence of Minimalism in this more reduced aesthetic is clear, and his canvases became more object-like. Both printmaking and bookmaking were central to Yunkers's oeuvre. He founded the Rio Grande Workshop in New Mexico (where he also taught) in 1949, publishing an entirely handmade art magazine called Prints in the Desert. In 1969 he illustrated a limited-edition book by the poet Octavio Paz, a collaboration that sparked both a friendship and a number of additional illustrated books in the years to come. Yunkers also produced two large public works on commission: A Human Condition (1966), a mural for Syracuse University, and a tapestry produced for Stony Brook University (1968), both in New York. Yunkers had his first solo exhibition in 1921 at the Maria Kunde Galerie, Hamburg, Germany. Later that same year, he was part of a group show featuring Eastern European and Russian artists, including Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, and Vasily Kandinsky, held in Hannover, Germany. He was included in an exhibition organized by the Print Council of America entitled American Prints Today. A snapshot of the state of American printmaking at the time of the exhibition. Among the many featured artists were Josef Albers, Leonard Baskin, Ralston Crawford, Adolf Dehn, Fritz Glarner, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Ynez Johnston, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, Mauricio Lasansky, Vincent Longo, Ezio...

Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: A II Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 2/50 Image size 40 x 30 inches Size: 41 x 31 in. (104.1...

Artist: Adja Yunkers, American (1900 - 1983) Title: Morketiden II Year: 1973 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 10/175 Image Size: 15 x 17.5 inches Paper Size...

Artist: Adja Yunkers Title: Moon Face Year: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Paper: B.F.K Rives Image size: 17 x 13 inches Signature: Signed in pencil by the artist. Publisher: Tamarind Workshop Printer: Bohuslav Horak...

Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). He studied art in Petrograd (now Saint Pete...

Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). He studied art in Petrograd (now Saint Pete...