Black Gum #2, from the series Australian Graffiti
Christian Thompson, Bidjara / Australian, born 1978, Bidjara, Queensland, Australia
2007
C-Type print on paper
1/10
Overall: 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in. (100 × 100 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2011.60.64
Geography/Culture
Oceania, Australia, Indigenous Australia
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Classification
Photograph
On view
Course History
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Fall 2019
ANTH 3.02, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2019
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II and III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2019
WRIT 8, Writing with Media, Kenneth Bauer, Spring 2015
FREN 2, Introductory French II, Kelly McConnell, Winter 2015
FREN 2, Introductory French II, Gabriele Nencieu, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Visual Culture, Aimee Bahng, Winter 2015
NAS 42, Gender Issues in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, Carl Thum, Winter 2013
WRIT 5, Indigenous Knowledge and Development, Kenneth Bauer, Winter 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
WRIT 5, Nature and Imagination: The Meanings of Place, William Nichols, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
THEA 28, Dance Composition, Ford Evans, Fall 2012
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2012
ANTH 30, Hunters and Gatherers, Nathaniel Dominy, Fall 2012
SART 30, Photography II, Brian Miller, Fall 2012
SART 29, Photography I, Brian Miller, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50.4, Indigenous Australian Art and the Politics of Curation, Stephen Gilchrist, Winter 2012
ARTH 16, ANTH 50.4, Indigenous Australian Art and the Politics of Curation, Stephen Gilchrist, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Shifting the Lens: Indigenous Australian Photography, Louise and Morton Kaish Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 15-June 21, 2020.
Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 15, 2012-March 10, 2013; Toledo Museum of Art, April 11-July 14, 2013.
About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-August 30, 2015.
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. 56; p. 158, no. 113; backcover
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 209, ill. plate no. 140.
Provenance
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 11, 2008; lent to present collection, 2011; given to present collection, 2013.
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