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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. DrIndian Summer by Adrian Van Suchtelen, Image 1.

    Adrian Van Suchtelen

    DrIndian Summer, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    12.5 x 10 in (31.75 x 25.4 cm)

  2. Dante, I Had Not Known That Death Had Undone So Many by Tom Phillips, Image 1.

    Tom Phillips

    Dante, I Had Not Known That Death Had Undone So Many, c. 1975

    Etching on paper

    25.5 x 19.5 in (64.77 x 49.53 cm)

  3. Cornered Circuit by Gordon House, Image 1.

    Gordon House

    Cornered Circuit, 1970

    Etching on paper

    24.25 x 17.125 in (61.6 x 43.5 cm)

  4. For The Year of the Insane by Barbara Swan, Image 1.

    Barbara Swan

    For The Year of the Insane, 1969

    Lithograph on paper with poem by Anne Sexton

    29.5 x 21.25 in (74.93 x 53.98 cm)

  5. Figure Study by Michael Mazur, Image 1.

    Michael Mazur

    Figure Study, 1963

    Lithograph on paper

    22.9375 x 28 in (58.26 x 71.12 cm)

  6. Seated Child by Paul Resika, Image 1.

    Paul Resika

    Seated Child, 1963

    Lithograph on paper

    12.75 x 10 in (32.39 x 25.4 cm)

  7. Television by Ryan O'Malley, Image 5.

    Ryan O'Malley

    Television, No date

    Lithograph on paper

    8.0625 x 10 in (20.48 x 25.4 cm)

  8. Green by Boder, Image 1.

    Boder

    Green, No date

    Screenprint on paper

    28.25 x 22.4375 in (71.76 x 56.99 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.