Polyptych, 1953

Not on View

Medium

color woodcut on five sheets of wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (a): 98.4 × 61.5 cm (38 3/4 × 24 3/16 in.)
sheet (b): 118.75 × 55.25 cm (46 3/4 × 21 3/4 in.)
sheet (c): 116.4 × 129 cm (45 13/16 × 50 13/16 in.)
sheet (d): 119.06 × 54.93 cm (46 7/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
sheet (e): 93.66 × 60.96 cm (36 7/8 × 24 in.)
overall: 121.92 × 229.87 cm (48 × 90 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Miller 1969, no. 73

Accession Number

1954.12.162.a-e

Artists / Makers

Adja Yunkers (artist) American, born Latvia, 1900 - 1983

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Inscription

a) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Power of Circumstance" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
b) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Personal Epiphany" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
c) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Magnificat" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
d) "Yunkers -53" lower right margin, graphite. "Chaos of Unreason" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
e) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Graveyard of Cathedrals" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.

Marks and Labels

a) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet and lower right sheet, stamped black ink, stamped twice.
b) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet, stamped black ink. "73" verso, lower center sheet, stamped black ink.
c) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet, stamped black ink. "73" verso, lower right sheet, stamped black ink.
d) "73" verso, lower right sheet, stamped black ink.
e) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet, stamped black ink.

Provenance

the artist, New York; (Borgenicht Gallery, New York); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, 1953; acquired 1954 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1969: Miller, Jo. Adja Yunkers, Prints 1927-1967. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1969, no. 73.