Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The Artist, painted late 1971
Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. W L Jackson, teachers at the Papunya School, 1972
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, Important Aboriginal Art, June 1999, lot 56
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
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
Bardon, Geoffrey, and James Bardon. Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. The Miegunyah Press, 2004, p. 115, painting 15.
Perkins, Hetti, and Hannah Fink. Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, pp. 12, 288 (illus.)
Sotheby's. Important Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, June 1999, pp. 46, 48.