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Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The artist, created late 1971
Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. W L Jackson, June 28, 1999 teachers at the Papunya School, in early 1972 “at an exhibition to raise money to buy more painting supplies”
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 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
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, June 1999, page 46, 48
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000: Pages 12 (ill) and 288
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 115, painting 15