Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra Ngaliya/Warlpiri Language Groups, circa 1932-2020
Big Family Kangaroo Ceremonial Dreaming, 1971
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board
28 ¹¹⁄₄ x 23 ⅞ inches (71.75 x 60.64 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, late 1971
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment no. 6, painting 21, cat. no. 6021
Private Collection, Northern Territory
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and works on Paper, Melbourne, 20 April 1998, lot 2
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
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, 20 April 1998, p.16
Bardon and Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 220, painting 129
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
"Long Jack uses a radiating configuration where modified ceremonial hat diamond forms, associated with story-telling tracks, are grouped symmetrically in elaborate Kangaroo Dreaming details; travelling and the hunting dance by the Spirit Being are integral to this ceremony." (A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, 2004, p. 220)
Related artworks
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Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, Medicine Story, 1971
