Milky Way Seven Sisters Dreaming

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Represented by pink and red concentric circles, the Seven Sisters float in the pulsing night sky as their pursuer, the old man, trails behind. As a child, the artist learned to paint from her father, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, and has gone on to have a long and impactful career. After winning the Alice Springs Art Prize as a sixteen-year-old college student, she began showing internationally. In 2006 Nungurrayi was featured in the first major US exhibition of Indigenous Australian women artists, Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, a show organized by The National Museum of Women in the Arts and shown at the Hood Museum.

From the 2023 exhibition Layered Histories: Indigenous Australian Art from the Kimberley and Central Desert, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming

Course History

ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013

SART 25, SART 31, Painting I, II, Summer 2013

SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2014

Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Exhibition History

Layered Histories: Indigenous Australian Art from the Kimberely and Central Desert, Amelia Kahl, Curator, 5 August 2023 - 2 March 2024, Citrin Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Provenance

Jinta Desert Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Certificate of Authenticity); sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, date unknown; given to present collection, 2009.

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