Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Papunya, Northern Territory, 1973
Acquired by a resident worker at Papunya, Northern Territory, 1973
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June, 1996, lot 198
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, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June, 1996, p. 65
Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artist, IAD Press, 2008, p. 163-68
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