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Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri
Pintupi Medicine Dreaming [formerly Medicine Story], 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
19 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ x 16 ¹⁄₁₆ inches (50.64 x 40.8 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, consignment 19, painting 59, cat. no. 19059
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, lot 33
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
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, p. 34
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. 302, painting 244
"Radiating arms arranged around a central concentric circle enclose four other concentric circles which could be testicles or women. The design is unfinished; it has phallic overtones." (Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, 2004 p. 302)
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Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, The Honey Ant Story, 1972 -
Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri, Three Corroboree Poles [formerly untitled], 1971
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Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri, Ngalyukuntinya, 1985
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Unidentified Artist likely Tommy Lowery Tjapaltjarri, Archetypal Pintupi Ceremonial Dreaming [formerly Untitled], 1971
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