Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Wild Potato (Yam) Spirit Dreaming (Version 3), 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on board
26 ¾ x 23 ³⁄₁₆ inches (67.95 x 58.9 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Napperby Station, Northern Territory, March 1972
Private Collection
Corbally Stourton Fine Art, London
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
Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together), Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 24 June 2021 - 27 February 2022
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu: Past & Present Together, Embassy of Australia, Washington,DC
9 November 2023 - 11 December 2023
Publications
Cf. Bardon, Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, 1991, p. 120, 138 - 39
Corbally Stourton, Patrick, Songlines and Dreamings: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting (London: Lund Humphries), 1996, p. 139
Bardon and Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 321, 322, painting 262
Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt. ‘Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists’, 2022 (illus.)
Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023 (illus.)
John Kean, Dot Circle & Frame, Upswell Publishing: Perth, 2023
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141
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