The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 13, 2024
Sestina II
1958
Location: not on view
Description
Adja Yunkers revolutionized the medium of pastel in the 1950s with gestural strokes of color that emphasized pastel’s painterly qualities, presented on an unprecedented scale. Sestina II refers to a type of sung poetry common in Italy and France in the 1500s and 1600s and associated with troubadours. Yunkers’s composition may be more concerned with capturing the romantic spirit of the poetry than its rigid structure.- nullHenning, Edward B. Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. pp. 162 and 208Bartelik, Marek. To Invent a Garden: The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000. p. 67
- To Invent a Garden: Adja Yunkers Retrospective. Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (March 24-June 11, 2000).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.129