and the blak mother crys
Clinton Nain, Meriam Mer / Kuku / Australian, born 1971
Meriam Mer
Ku ku
Torres Strait Islands
Queensland
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
2005
Acrylic, bitumen, pencil on canvas
Overall: 35 7/16 × 17 11/16 in. (90 × 45 cm)
Overall: 35 7/16 in. (90 cm)
Overall: 12 × 6 1/8 × 130 1/8 in. (30.5 × 15.5 × 330.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2009.92.56
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Publication History
Stephen Gilchrist, editor, Crossing Cultures, The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, p. 17, Fig 1.15
Provenance
Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, August 13, 2005; given to present collection, 2009.
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