Adja Yunkers Wall Decorations

Large painting by Adja Yunkers titled "Noontime At Midnight", 1965. Adja Yunkers was born in Russian Latvia in 1900 and, until his death in 1983 in NYC, lived the peripatetic life ...

Requiem for a Virgin King by Adja Yunkers (1900-1983), abstract lithograph, yellow, signed. Large lithograph on wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil in lower right. Numbered 39/50 and titled: Requiem for a Virgin King. Image size measures: 46 x 35. Framed size: 54.5 inches x 45 inches. Archivally matted and framed with a 1.5 inch white lacquered wood molding and UV plexiglass.  Yunkers, a major New York mid-twentieth century abstract painter and printmaker, was part of a group of New York artists (and friends) which included Robert Motherwell, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Phillip Guston...

Framed Lithograph by Adja Yunkers, circa 1960s.

Adja Yunkers lithograph titled "ICON", numbered 50/100. Sign and dated 1978. Adja Yunkers (1900-1983) was an abstract painter and printmaker. Recognized and collected internationally...

Framed lithograph by Adja Yunkers 'Composition II', 1960s. Numbered 14 out of 20.

"Red Echo" by Adja Yunkers (1900-1983), abstract lithograph, signed. Lithograph on wove paper, signed, dated and numbered in pencil lower right: 2/40 Adja Yunkers 1976. Titled "Red Echo" in lower left in pencil. Lithograph was been archivally matted and framed with a 1.5 inch white lacquered wood molding and UV plexiglass. Framed size: 41 inches x 30.38 inches x 1.5 inches. Yunkers, a major New York mid-twentieth century abstract painter and printmaker, was part of a group of New York artists (and friends) which included Robert Motherwell, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Phillip Guston...

Gouache and ink on mat board by Adja Yunkers, signed and dated 1958 on verso. An early work from Yunkers's Abstract Expressionist period, when he was married to art critic Dore Ashton and was part of the circle that congregated at Cedar Tavern. Born in Riga, Russia, Yunkers led a highly cosmopolitan life, studying and working in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, London, and Stockholm (where he edited and published two art magazines) before settling down in the U.S., primarily in New York City in 1947. A teacher at the New School for Social Research, Yunkers was internationally renowned for his woodblock prints and lithographs, turning to painting--first Expressionist, later Minimalist color fields--in the late 1950's. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, the Corcoran Gallery, MFA Boston...

Large painting by Adja Yunkers titled "Black and Purple", 1970. Adja Yunkers was born in Russian Latvia in 1900 and, until his death in 1983 in NYC, lived the peripatetic life that ...

From the Annex Galleries: Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Eduard Vilhelm Junker, in Riga, Latvia, on July 15th, 1900. He began drawing at an early age, from imagination and by studying...