Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10

Adja Yunkers
Adja Yunkers "Cameroon III" Mixed Media

1975

$6,300
£4,838.13
€5,544.44
CA$8,868.84
A$9,935.07
CHF 5,167.47
MX$121,187.29
NOK 65,788.75
SEK 62,034.10
DKK 41,382.15

About the Item

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Cameroon III" is an abstract acrylic collage and mixed media on canvas by the 20th century artist Adja Yunkers. This work is part of his "Cameroon" collage series from the 1970s and has ten strands of mixed fabrics hanging through it. The work is in good condition and is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner. It is also signed, dated, and titled on the verso. The canvas of the work measures at 30 x 24 inches. Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers in Riga in 1900, in what was then the Russian Empire but is now the capital city of the nation of Latvia. He studied art in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) and served a stint in the Russian army during WWI. He then began to travel, studying and practicing art all around Europe before serving again in the military during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. In 1939 he moved to Stockholm and worked with the Swedish Surrealists and took up an interest in printmaking with woodblock prints. After World War II, Yunkers moved to New York City and took up a teaching position at the New School. He married Dore Ashton who would go on to become an art critic for the New York times in 1955. While not an artist often associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York, he worked with many of those artists and began to work on colorful abstract work in pastel. He founded the Rio Grande Workshop in New Mexico in 1949 and illustrated a limited-edition book for Octavio Paz in 1969. Yunkers' work has been exhibited at the Maria Kunde Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake Cit, the Museo de arte moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, Instituto nacional de bellas artes, Mexico City, the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum. Permanent collections of his work include Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Museo Pedro Coronel, Zacatecas, México, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Stockholm National Gallery, Sweden, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Yunkers passed away in New York in 1983.

More From This Seller

View All
"Inspiraled" Abstract, Colorful, Swirls, Mixed Media, African-American
By Al Loving
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Inspiraled" is a lively creative mixed media piece full of life and dynamism that incorporates one of Loving's favorite motifs, the spiral. This piece is mounted by pins onto a canvas within a Plexiglass case. The actual size of the collage measures 13 inches x 19 inches. It is signed on verso by the artist with title inscribed. Alvin Demar Loving, Jr. better known as Al Loving...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Constance Powell-Teeples Mixed Media Abstract Geometric
Located in Detroit, MI
This untitled abstract work by Constance Powell-Teeples is a stark contrast to her usual work, prints of the Detroit skyline and local monuments and buildings. The work is flushed with colors that are reminiscent of the Detroit Tigers...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Untitled Abstract" Abstract Expressionist, Color Field, Black & White, Colors
By Robert Goodnough, 1917-2010
Located in Detroit, MI
"Untitled Abstract" is by the American painter, Robert Goodnough, known for calligraphy-like markings circa 1960s. Though he was associated with the Abstract Expressionists, Goodnoug...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Max Gunther Abstract Cityscape, Acrylic Collage on Canvas
By Max Gunther
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY This abstract acrylic work by Max Günther is an exquisite example of his abstract cityscape work. A preferred subject of Günther's, his work took cityscape shapes...
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Clif McChesney "Untitled" Abstract Expressionist
Located in Detroit, MI
In 2016 the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, in homage to the very first exhibition in the Zimmerman Sculpture Court, installed the first two paintings by the former Michig...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Fantastic Rafael Coronel Mixed Media 1961
By Rafael Coronel
Located in Detroit, MI
"Untitled" is a dramatically placed individual who appears to be withdrawing into herself surrounded by a soft pinkish color. She has a sad look in her non-reflective eyes. This pain...
Category

Mid-20th Century Futurist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board, ABS

You May Also Like

Tribal Africa VII
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Tribal Africa VIII
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Moises Ramos Mixed Media Abstract Painting 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Moises Ramos Mixed Media Abstract Painting 20th Century Mixed media with oils and acrylics on canvas Canvas dimensions 29" wide x 22.5" high The frame measures 30.25" wide x 24" h...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

SOULIE, Abstract mixed media painting on canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Canvas by SOULIE, France, 1970s This striking abstract mixed media painting by the French artist Soulié from the 1970s features a geometric abstract...
Category

1970s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas

African Ancestor
By John Little
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic and paper collage on canvas. Signed and dated lower left; signed, ...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Laid Paper

Mixed Media Collage Oil Painting Latvian American Modernist Artist Adja Yunkers
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Surfside, FL
Adja Yunkers, Latvian/American, 1900-1983. 1973 Mixed media collage painting with applied threads on canvas, Titled "Collage #67". Initialed "A. Y." and dated "'73" lower left, ...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Fabric, Oil