Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Stuart Art Centre, late 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 15, painting 10, cat. no. 15010
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, Fine Aboriginal Art, 27 June 2000, lot 143
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
Australian Consulate-General New York, Official Consul General Residence, New York, 5 October 2021–20 October 2022
Publications
Bardon, Geoffrey, and James Bardon. Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. The Miegunyah Press, 2004, pp. 79, 372, painting 324.
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, Fine Aboriginal Art, 2000, p. 88.
Johnson, Vivien. Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists. IAD Press, 2008, p. 121 (illus.)
Sotheby's, Melbourne, Important Aboriginal Art, 1997, p. 28.
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