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Adja Yunkers

Abstract painter and printmaker, collagist, and art instructor; New York, N.Y. Died 1983. Born in Riga, Latvia. Studied in Leningrad, Paris, Berlin, and London. He moved to the United States in 1947. Faculty member of the New School for Social Research, 1947-1956; Cooper Union, 1956-1967.

Alternate Name
Yunkers, Adja
Birth
1900
Birth Location
Riga, Russia
Death
1983
Death Location
New York, New York, United States
Nationalities
American, born Latvian
American
american,
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Selected Images of Adja Yunkers

(no title) (Jack Tworkov, 1957 Jun. 9)
(no title) (Colette Jacqueline Roberts, 1970 April 17)
(no title) (196-)

Objects at Archives of American Art (2)

(no title) (Jack Tworkov, 1957 Jun. 9)
(no title) (Colette Jacqueline Roberts, 1970 April 17)

Objects at Smithsonian American Art Museum (8)

Ostia Antica IV (Adja Yunkers, 1965)
Shell (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
Suburb (Adja Yunkers, 1950)
The Birdlover (Adja Yunkers, 1952)
Secret Messenger III (Adja Yunkers, 1962)
Veronica I (Adja Yunkers, 1964)
Aegean II (Adja Yunkers, 1967)
Second Dream of the Infanta Isabel (Adja Yunkers, 1969)

Objects at Princeton University Art Museum (9)

Personal Epiphany (Adja Yunkers)
The Illusionist (Adja Yunkers, 1973)
Summer in Venice I (Adja Yunkers, 1966)
A Miro (Adja Yunkers)
Borghese Gardens, Rome (Adja Yunkers, 1954)
City Lights (Adja Yunkers)
Twenty-one Etchings and Poems (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
The Sky Hides All Birds (Adja Yunkers)
Praise to the End! (Adja Yunkers, 1960)

Objects at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (19)

Third Dream Infanta Isabella (Adja Yunkers, 1972)
Untitled I (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
untitled (Adja Yunkers, 1967)
Untitled III (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
Calligraphy (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
Composition II (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
Arabesque (Adja Yunkers, 1965)
Skies of Venice IX (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
untitled (Adja Yunkers, 1967)
Untitled II (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
The Hamptons (Adja Yunkers, 1977)
untitled (Adja Yunkers, 1967)
Soprattutto II (Adja Yunkers, 20th century/LATE)
Composition XIII (Adja Yunkers, 1974)
Little Landscape (Adja Yunkers, 1960)
Les Pendus II (Adja Yunkers, 1980)
chant d'un oiseau sourd (Song of a Deaf Bird) (Adja Yunkers, 20th century/LATE)
untitled (Adja Yunkers, 1967)
untitled (Adja Yunkers, 1967)