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Artworks
Kingsley Tjungurray
Stars, Rain and Lightening at Night [formerly Storm], 1971Synthetic Polymer and enamel paint on composition board27 13/14 x 9 1/8 inches (70.63 × 23.18 cm)Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell UniversityProvenance
The artist, created before or about May 1971
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Consignment #1 painting 10
Private collection, Queenland
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne June 29, 1998, Lot 22
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 202260 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023Publications
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998 page 22
Bardon and Bardon, 2004 page 106, painting 15
Cf Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artist: Page 58 (ill) for related work.
Fred Myers and Terry Smith, Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024
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