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  • Hi Interested Folks,
     
    "Two Collections" celebrates the history of Australian Indigenous art on canvas or board since its dramatic beginnings circa 1970. Early works are from the Wilkerson collection (1971-1985-ish), and later works are from the Martin/Stringfield collection.
    The site is intended for reference, scholarship, and for admirers of Australian Indigenous art. Also, the curious. It is not a commercial site. 
     
    Note: Copyright for the photos is pending. The site is still being formed and not all data has been thoroughly applied. Give us time!
     
    Enjoy,
    John, Barbara, Anne, and Steve
  • Essays

    • What New York Could Learn from Alice Springs, By Deborah Solomon
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      What New York Could Learn from Alice Springs

      By Deborah Solomon
      'Contemporary Australian Indigenous painting has an official start date of 1971, an era when Minimalist artists in New York were turning out metal cubes and proclaiming that “painting is dead”'
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  • Photo Sandee Oliver (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Standing is Bobby West Tjupurrula and kneeling at painting is Ray James Tjangala, putting Wamulu on ground surface at Cornell’s Johnson Museum, 2009 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Yukultji Napangati with Steve Martin and D'Lan Davidson (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Makinti Napanangka with Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women), 2001 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (photo: New York Times) (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Makinti Napanangka painting (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Presenter Mayatili Marika at UOVO, Long Island City, 2023. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    George Tjungurrayi, Kintore, Australia, 2005 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Icons of the Desert, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2009 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    John Wilkerson and Steve Martin probably saying silly things. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ronnie Tjampitjinpa painting "Untitled," 1997 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Yukultji Napangati with "Untitled," 2017

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