Artist: Adja Yunkers Title: Moon Face Year: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Paper: B.F.K Rives Image size: 17 x 13 inches Signature: Signed in pencil by the artist. Publisher: Tamarind Workshop Printer: Bohuslav Horak Condition: Excellent Frame Framed in a silver wooden frame, with fabric matting and blue color bevel Description This artwork is dedicated by Sylvia (Sylvia Yunkers daughter of the artist) for Christmas 1990. It is also signed Adja in pencil by the artist About the artist. Adja Yunkers 1900-1983, of Latvian birth, studied in Leningrad, Paris, Berlin, and London and, after a period of travel, established a workshop in Stockholm. In 1946 he came to the United States where, three years later, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His color woodblocks have been exhibited throughout this country. The five panel polyptych is now on tour to be shown in 25 major American museums. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan, Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia Museums, the New York Public Library, the National and Corcoran Galleries and many other institutions in the U.S and abroad. The prints of Adja Yunkers are today included in the following collections: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Stockholm National Gallery, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Corcoran Museum, Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.