Title
Possum love story
1986
Artist
Michael Jagamara Nelson
Australia
1946 – 09 Nov 2020
Language group: Warlpiri, Central Desert region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Vaughan Springs
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1986
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 183.0 x 183.4 x 3.5 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Mollie Gowing Acquisition fund for Contemporary Aboriginal art 1992
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 259.1992
- Copyright
- © Michael Jagamara Nelson. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Michael Jagamara Nelson
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Places
Where the work was made
Vaughan Springs
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
My story my country: Aboriginal Art and the land, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Jul 1992–16 Aug 1992
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, 'Michael Nelson Tjakamarra', pg. 205-207, Northern Territory, 2008, 206 (colour illus.). NOTE: In this book the painting is reproduced with a different orientation.
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Hetti Perkins., Contemporary Aboriginal art: The Mollie Gowing acquisition fund, 'Gifted Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Mollie Gowing acquisition fund', Sydney, 2006, (colour illus.). not paginated
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