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An image of Ngarin Janu Country by Rover Thomas

Rover Thomas

(Australia 1926–11 Apr 1998)

Language group
Wangkujunga, Western Desert region , Kukatja, Western Desert region
Title
Ngarin Janu Country
Other titles:
Nagrin Janu Country
Place of origin
Warmun (Turkey Creek)East KimberleyWestern AustraliaAustralia
Year
(circa 1988)
Media category
Painting
Materials used
earth pigments in synthetic polymer resin on canvas
Dimensions

100.0 x 140.0cm

Credit
Purchased 1988
Accession number
512.1988
Copyright
© Estate of Rover Thomas. Warmun Art Centre
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (8)

Kasper König (Germany) (Author), Emily Joyce Evans (Germany) (Author), Falk Wolf (Germany) (Author), Remembering forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960, Cologne, 2010, 65 (colour illus.). cat.no. 25

Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Art + soul: a journey into the world of Aboriginal art, Carlton, 2010, 98 (colour illus.), 280.

Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Margie West (Australia) (Author), Theresa Willsteed (Editor), One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, Sydney, 2007, 61 (colour illus.).

Belinda Carrigan (Australia) (Editor), Rover Thomas: I want to paint, East Perth, 2003, 77.

Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 229 (colour illus.).

Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 74, 75 (colour illus.), 138, 139. plate no. 35

Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 253 (colour illus.).

Lunami Art Gallery (Japan) (Author), Ross Gibson (Author), Inner-Land, Japan, 1993, (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (4)

Inner Land, Lunami Art Gallery, 09 Nov 1993–27 Nov 1993.

Another Country, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Jul 1999–02 Apr 2000.

One sun, one moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 03 Jul 2007–02 Dec 2007.

Remembering Forward: An Exhibition of Major Australian Indigenous Artists, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 20 Nov 2010–20 Mar 2011.