Immobile Sun XXI-C
1983 · Color soft ground etching, aquatint, and screenprint on white wove paper
Image: 75.7 × 60.7 cm (29 13/16 × 23 15/16 in.); Sheet: 92.5 × 71 cm (36 7/16 × 28 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Adja Yunkers
American-Swedish, 1900–1983
Riga, Latvia
PrintmakingAbstract Art
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None documented
11
Institutional Exhibitions
73
Works in Collection
125
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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
No image
Prints for Collectors
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Adja Yunkers was a Swedish abstract painter and printmaker whose work bridged European modernism and American postwar abstraction. Active from the 1920s onward, he developed a distinctive approach to color and gestural mark-making that influenced both painting and relief printing. His practice encompassed oil, watercolor, and woodcut, with compositions that favored dynamic linear rhythms and bold chromatic relationships. Yunkers maintained studios in Europe and the United States, where his work circulated among mid-century abstract artists.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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