Charlie Tarawa (Tjaruru) Tjungurrayi
Provenance
The artist, created October- December 1971
Stuart Art Centre, consignment 8, painting 35 (no. 8035), Alice Springs
Deutscher-Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1999, lot 58
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Art Gallery of New South Wales, date unknown
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
Australian Consulate-General New York, Official Consul General Residence, New York, 5 October 2021 - 20 October 2022
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Deutscher- Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1999: page 49; cover (ill.)
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 300, painting 241