Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri Pintupi Language Group, c. 1926-August 16, 1998
Water Dreaming, 1972
Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board
27 ⅜ max x 22 ¼ inches (69.53 x 56.52 cm)
© The Estate of the Artist, by permission of Papunya Tula Artists through the Aboriginal Artists Agency. Photography by Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Papunya, 1972
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. PT 30
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, Fine Aboriginal Art, 27 June 2000, lot 32
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
Publications
Benjamin, Roger, Fred Myers, Vivien Johnson, et al. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009.
Deutscher-Menzies. Fine Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 27 June 2000, p. 25.
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