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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Immobile Sun by Adja Yunkers, Image 1.

    Adja Yunkers

    Immobile Sun, 1981

    Lithograph on paper

    22.5 x 30 in (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

  2. Chalice by Adja Yunkers, Image 1.

    Adja Yunkers

    Chalice, 1981

    Lithograph on paper

    30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

  3. Immobile Sun by Adja Yunkers, Image 1.

    Adja Yunkers

    Immobile Sun, 1979

    Lithograph on paper

    28.75 x 37.5 in (73.03 x 95.25 cm)

  4. Yo by Adja Yunkers, Image 1.

    Adja Yunkers

    Yo, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    21.5 x 16 in (54.61 x 40.64 cm)

  5. Plenitude in Blue by Adja Yunkers, Image 2.

    Adja Yunkers

    Plenitude in Blue, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    30.125 x 22.25 in (76.52 x 56.52 cm)

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About the artist

Adja Yunkers

American

1900-1983

American painter and printmaker born in Riga, Russia (present day Latvia). Yunkers Studied art in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) before moving to Germany in 1919. He was active in artistic movements such as Sturmgruppe as he exhibited alongside Nolde, Schmidt and Rottluff, and in a Russian avant-garde exhibition with Kandinsky, Archipenko and Chagall. Yunkers traveled extensively across Spain, Canary Islands, Cuba, etc.; in Cuba, he participated in the Leftist activities before fleeing the political upheaval for Mexico, where met Diego Rivera and returned to Europe. He escaped Nazi Germany for Paris then Sweden. Collaborated in various art publications (ARS magazine and Creation magazine) before moving to New York. He founded Rio Grande Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is known for color woodcuts and introduced brushwork into the genre. He produced two important series of lithographs at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles: Salt (five lithographs) and Skies of Venice (ten lithographs). Collected works found in Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Brooklyn Musem, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; etc.