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Artworks
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Dreaming Story at Warlugulong, 1976Synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
19 3/4 X 15 3/4 inches (50.17 x 40.01 cm)Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell UniversityProvenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, no. CP761025
Acquired in Alice Springs in 1976
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, June 17, 1996, lot 1
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
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 1994, pages 49-59, 154-55, plates 9 and 16
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, June 17, 1996, page 9
Perkins, Hetti and Vivien Johnson, Warlugulong 1976. Australian Collection Focus Series no. 4 Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1999).
Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 2004, pages 86-99, 223
