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Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment number 17, painting 9 (no. 17009)
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, lot 19
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000
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
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997: page 21
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000: pages 45 (ill.) and 285
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 200, painting 105
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.