Polyptych

1953

Adja Yunkers

Artist, American, born Latvia, 1900 - 1983

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on five sheets of wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1954.12.162.a-e

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miller 1969, no. 73


Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

1969

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

Inscriptions

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.

Markings

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.


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