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Artworks
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Yam Spirit Dreaming, 1972Synthetic polymer paint on board26 3/4 X 23 3/16 inches (67.95 x 58.9 cm)Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell UniversityProvenance
The artist, created March 1972
Unknown Private Collection
Corbally Stourton Fine Art, London
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 2022
Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together), Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 24 June 2021 - 27 February 202260 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu: Past & Present Together, Embassy of Australia, Washington,DC9 November 2023 - 11 December 2023Publications
Cf. Bardon, Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, 1991: pages 120, 138-39
Corbally Stourton, Patrick, Songlines and Dreamings: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting (London: Lund Humphries), 1996: page 139
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 322, painting 262; also page 321
Dot Circle & Frame, by John Kean, First published in Australia in 2023 by Upswell Publishing. Perth, Western Australia
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141
