Nanigos
Adja Yunkers
1927
Medium
color woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 34.5 x 25.8 cm (13 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.408
About the Artist
Adja Yunkers
Adja Yunkers (1900–1983), born Adolf Eduard Vilhelm Junker in Riga in what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire, was one of the most internationally peripatetic and stylistically adventurous printmakers and painters of the twentieth century. Restlessly mobile from an early age, Yunkers studied art successively in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London, accumulating a breadth of ...