Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, lot 15
Private collection
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 and 27 June 2000, lot 70
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, pages 16-17
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 26, 2000, pages 58-59
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, page 63 (ill.), page 281
Kleinert and Neale, fig. 37 (col.), page 730
Bardon and Bardon, page 168, painting 76
Genocchio, Benjamin, Dollar Dreaming: Inside the Aboriginal Art World (Melbourne: Hardie Grant), 2008: page 15 (ill.), pages 112-16
Dot Circle & Frame, by John Kean, First published in Australia in 2023 by Upswell Publishing. Perth, Western Australia
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141