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Artworks
Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi
Children’s Water Dreaming (Version 2) [formerly Water Story], 1972Synthetic polymer paint on composition board24 1/4 X 17 1/2 max inches (61.6 x 44.45 max cm)Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell UniversityProvenance
The artist, created May- July 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 14, painting 3 (no. 14003)
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998, lot 46
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
Everywhen: The External Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 5 February - 18 September 2016Australian Consulate-General New York, Official Consul General Residence, New York, 5 October 2021 - 20 October 2022
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998: page 37
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000: pages 46 (ill.) and 285
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 487, painting 469
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141
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