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Uta Uta Tjangala Pintupi, circa 1926-1990
Provenance
The Artist, painted in 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 17, painting 47, cat. no. 17041
Acquired by a Canadian doctor who worked at Papunya in 1972
Private Collection, Vancouver
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, lot 97
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
Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis And Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p. 27 - 29
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, p. 91
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 412, painting 375
Roger Benjamin, Fred Meyers, Vivien Johnson, et al., Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009
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Uta Uta Tjangala, Medicine Story, 1971
