Salt IV
Catalogue
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 44.5 × 34 cm (17 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Adja Yunkers
Artist
Printmaking
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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Immobile Sun XXI-C
1983 · Color soft ground etching, aquatint, and screenprint on white wove paper
A Moment Into Eternity II
1982 · Color soft ground etching, aquatint, lithograph, and screenprint on white wove paper
Third Dream of Infanta Isabella
1972 · Color lithograph on white wove paper
The Dream of the Infanta Isabel
1968 · Color lithograph on white wove paper
In Memory of the First Monk Immolating Himself in Saigon
1968 · Color lithograph on white wove paper
Aegean I from Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam
1966 · Lithograph with embossing from a portfolio of nine screenprints (two with collage additions, one with die-cut, one with punched holes), six lithographs (one with embossing), and one etching
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- Adja Yunkers
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 44.5 × 34 cm (17 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1960-112585
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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