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Red plateau c.1955-62

Accession No.
1:1660
Date Created
c.1955-62
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
37.5 x 54.9cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour over pencil on smooth cream wove paper on paperboard
Credit Line
Bequest of Cedric Powne 1979

Benjamin Landara married Albert Namatjira’s eldest daughter Maisie and soon, after commencing painting in the late 1940s, became one of Albert Namatjira’s favourite pupils. He often painted with Namatjira who encouraged him and had a hand in some of his early works.
 

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© Estate of Benjamin Landara/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

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A watercolour painting of a Central Australian landscape.
THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

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Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

‘Namatjira to Now’

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

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