Succubae
1950
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View on museum website →Medium
color woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 40.64 × 19.37 cm (16 × 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 41.28 × 20.32 cm (16 1/4 × 8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.729
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 ...