Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, no. CP761025
Acquired in Alice Springs in 1976
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, June 17, 1996, lot 1
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
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 1994, pages 49-59, 154-55, plates 9 and 16
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, June 17, 1996, page 9
Perkins, Hetti and Vivien Johnson, Warlugulong 1976. Australian Collection Focus Series no. 4 Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999).
Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 2004, pages 86-99, 223