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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Blue Shields

1949

Adja Yunkers

Associated Names

Adja Yunkers

Artist, American, born Latvia, 1900 - 1983

The image displays an arrangement of curved, angular, and zigzagging lines on a textured background. Some shapes resemble a wheel and the edges of an arrowhead. Various colors such as blue, brown, green, and maroon are blended together with subdued tones in a layered abstract scene.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color monotype on wove papr
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Dimensions

overall: 66 x 34.3 cm (26 x 13 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

1950.1.128

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1951

Contemporary American Prints, Berlin, Germany, 1951-1952.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Adja Yunkers - 1949

Wikidata ID

Q65066895

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