caption movement death_date death_place birth_place nationality field birth_date image article_title name bgcolour
adja woodcut , 1952 , private collection yunkers , '' miss everready '' , color abstract art 1983 new york city riga , governorate of livonia , russian empire american painting 1900 ` yunkers , 1952 , private collection.jpg miss everready ' , color woodcut by adja adja yunkers
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adja yunkers

adja yunkers -lrb- 1900 -- 1983 -rrb- was an american abstract painter and printmaker .
he was born in riga , governorate of livonia , russian empire in 1900 .
he studied art in leningrad , berlin , paris , and london .
he lived in paris for 14 years , and then moved to stockholm in 1939 .
in stockholm , he published and edited the arts magazines `` ars '' magazine and `` creation '' magazine .
in 1947 he moved to the united states , where he lived for the rest of his life .
in 1949 , he received a guggenheim fellowship .
during the 1950s he primarily worked in color woodcuts , introducing brushwork into the genre .
in 1960 , he began producing lithographs .
he produced two important series of lithographs at the tamarind lithography workshop in los angeles -- `` salt '' -lrb- five lithographs -rrb- and `` skies of venice '' -lrb- ten lithographs -rrb- .
yunkers died in new york city in 1983 .
