Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri
Old Man’s Dreamings, 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on carved beanwood plaque
17 11/16 X 11 1/8 X 1 1/4 inches (44.93 x 28.26 x 3.18 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
Acquired from Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, early 1973
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, lot 250
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