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Artworks
Uta Uta Tjangala Pintupi, circa 1926-1990
Medicine Story (version 3), 1972Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board27 ⅝ x 13 ⅞ inches (70.17 x 35.24 cm)© The estate of the artist, by permission of Papunya Tula Artists through the Aboriginal Artists AgencyPhotography by Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Pintupi Language Group Provenance
The Artist, painted at Stuart Art Center, 1972
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 7, painting 5, cat. no. 70050
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, Important Aboriginal Art, 30 June 1997, lot 17
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
Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 30 September 2011- 12 February 2012; Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France, 9 October 2012- 20 January 2013
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
Bardon, Geoffrey, and James Bardon. Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. The Miegunyah Press, 2004, p. 306, painting 248.
Benjamin, Roger, Fred Myers, Vivien Johnson, et al. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009.
Connors, Thomas. "Cultural Crossings." The Magazine Antiques, July/August 2025, pp. 130–141.
Myers, Fred. "Aesthetics and Practice: A Local Art History of Pintupi Painting." 1999, pp. 219–259.
Sotheby's. Important Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 30 June 1997, p. 19.
Sutton, Peter. Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia. 1988, pp. 136–137, 178–179 (illus.)
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