Old Walter Tjampitjinpa
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 17, painting 35 (no. 17035)
Acquired by a Canadian doctor who worked at Papunya in 1972
Private collection, Vancouver
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, lot 88
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 10 January - 5 April 2009; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 3 May - 2 August, 2009; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 1 September - 5 December, 2009
Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 30 September 2011- 12 February 2012; Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France, 9 October 2012- 20 January 2013
Abstraction & the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings from Australia’s Western Desert (1971 – Present), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah, 11 September - 12 December 2015
Publications
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, pages 86-87 Bardon and Bardon, 2004, page 188, painting 97
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141