Adja Yunkers American (1900-1983) Dream of the Infanta Isabella, 1969 Acrylic/Collage on board signed lower right and verso. Biography from Annex Galleries: A major twentieth century abstract painter and printmaker, Adja Yunkers studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris and London. His first solo exhibition took place in Hamburg in 1921. For a period of fourteen years, Yunkers lived and worked in Paris. At the outbreak of World War II (1939), he moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he edited and published the arts magazines, ARS and Creation. Adja Yunkers settled permanently in the United States in 1947. During the following years important exhibitions of his woodcuts, lithographs and paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The prints of Adja Yunkers are today included in the following collections: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Stockholm National Gallery, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Corcoran Museum, Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before 1960, the majority of Yunkers's graphic art was in the medium of the color woodcut. During the 1950's decade, he established himself at the forefront of American woodcut creation, along with Louis Schanker and Seong Moy. Concentrating on large compositions with complex color printings, Yunkers introduced painterly conceptions in his woodcuts, including the added devices of brushwork. Beginning in 1960, however, the artist began experimenting with these concerns in another medium -- lithography. Working at the now famous Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, Yunkers created two of his finest series of lithographs during this year, Salt (five lithographs) and Skies of Venice (ten lithographs). Textural qualities and lightness of form became Yunkers's primary objectives and during this period he worked closely with the Tamarind master printer, Bohuslav Horak, to achieve these challenging effects. ----- 5 1/2"H x 7"W, 12"H x 13 1/4"W (frame)