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Organ Pipes at Finke River 2009

Accession No.
2016.330
Date Created
2009
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
54 x 36cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour on paper with board backing
Credit Line
The Glenn Manser Collection.
Gift of Glenn Manser through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Douglas Kwarlpe Abbott was born in 1948 at Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and grew up near Idracowra on the banks of the Finke River, south of Alice Springs. In this painting, Abbott has depicted the ‘Organ Pipes’, a rock formation in Glen Helen Gorge on the Finke River, which lies 130 kilometres west of Alice Springs in the West MacDonnell National Park.

According to their kinship system, Abbott is regarded as a grandson of the esteemed watercolourist Albert Namatjira. As a young boy, Abbott watched Namatjira paint alongside his cousin, Clem Abbott, and other members of the original Hermannsburg watercolourists.

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