Uta Uta Tjangala Pintupi, circa 1926-1990
Medicine Story (version 3), 1972
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board
27 ⅝ x 13 ⅞ inches (70.17 x 35.24 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 7, painting 5, cat. no. 70050
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, lot 17
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
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
Publications
Peter Sutton, Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, 1988, p. 136-137, 178-179 (illus.)
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, p. 19
Fred Myers, Aesthetics and Practice: a Local Art History of Pintupi Painting, 1999, p. 219-259
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004 p. 306, painting 248
Roger Benjamin, Fred Meyers, Vivien Johnson, et al., Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p. 130-141
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