Adja Yunkers

In Stockholm, he published and edited the arts magazines ARS magazine and Creation magazine. In 1947 he moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life. He held a teaching position at the New School for Social Research in New York while summers were spent teaching at the University of New Mexico. 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.

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Stockholm and United States. Employment is recorded with University of New Mexico and The New School. Works named in the authority record are Aegean III, Aegean II, Secret Messenger III, Composition X, Composition III and Aegean I. Work by Adja Yunkers is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and Ford Foundation.

• Name — Adja Yunkers • Born — 1900 • Birthplace — Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire • Died — 1983 • Place of death — New York City • Field — Painting, printmaking • Movement — Abstract art

• Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris • Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida • Brooklyn Museum, New York City • Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio • Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. • Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California • Guggenheim Museum, New York • Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. • Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii • Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana • 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 • Seattle Art Museum • Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Illinois • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • Stockholm National Gallery, Sweden • Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio • University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City • Victoria and Albert Museum, London • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York • Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile