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Artworks
Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa
Ngalyilpi (A Small Snake), 1972Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board
48 X 37 1/2 max inches (121.92 x 95.25 max)Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell UniversityProvenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 20, painting 59 (no. 20059)
Purchased at Papunya by a visiting Adelaide theater director, late 1972
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, lot 103
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000
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
Australian 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
Perkins and Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, page 69 (il.) and 282
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, page 83
Cf. Bardon and Bardon, 2004, page 338 on Snake Dreamings
Dot Circle & Frame, by John Kean, First published in Australia in 2023 by Upswell Publishing. Perth, Western Australia
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.
