Adja Yunkers

Adja Yunkers (1900-1983) was an abstract painter and printmaker who was born in Riga, Latvia 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. He moved to the United States in 1947, where he lived for the rest of his life. 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" (five lithographs) and "Skies of Venice" (ten lithographs). Yunkers died in New York City in 1983.

Permanent collections

The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Brooklyn Museum, New York City; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.; the Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Honolulu Academy of Arts; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington D.C.; the Stockholm National Gallery; the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; are among the public collections holding work by Adja Yunkers.

References

* Bartelik, Marek, "To Invent a Garden, The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers", New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2000.
* Johnson, Una E. & Jo Miller, "Adja Yunkers; Prints 1927-1967", Brooklyn, N.Y., Brooklyn Museum, 1969.
* Paz, Octavio, "Blanco, Illuminations by Adja Yunkers", Yunkers, 1974.
* University of New Mexico, "New Mexico Artists: John Sloan, Ernest L. Blumenschein, Gustave Baumann, Kenneth M. Adams, Adja Yunkers, Raymond Jonson, Peter Hurd, Howard Cook", Albuquerque, N.M., University of New Mexico Press, 1952.
* Utah Museum of Fine Arts, "Adja Yunkers", Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 1969.
* Yunkers, Adja, "Adja Yunkers", Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museaum, 1962.

External links

* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/yunkers_adja.html Adja Yunkers in ArtCyclopedia]