Possum and Bush Tucker Dreaming, 1996 . jun 2002) bio je australijski slikar koji se smatra jednim od najpoznatijih i najuglednijih predstavnika aboridinske umjetnosti.Pripadao je klanu Peltharr iz Anmatyerre kulturno-lingvistike grupe. [24] After hanging in Ebes's living room for eleven years,[24] it was auctioned in Melbourne by Sotheby's on 24 July 2007. Clifford Possum emerged as one of the leaders in this school of painting, which has come to be called the Western Desert Art Movement. Posthumously, Tjapaltjarri's works are drawing increasing attention. Contact with Albrecht had an ongoing impact on Possum and his family. Clifford Possum emerged as an artist during the time Geoffrey Bardon came to Papunya and encouraged the people to place their artworks on canvas instead of the ground. c.1932- 21 June 2002 In the early 1950s, Possum met Albert Namatjira at Glen Helen Gorge, a newly developing tourist spot established by the nearby cattle station owner. (age70in2002), Basil P. Bressler (48portraits supported). Copyright in all materials and/or works comprising or contained within this website remains with the National Portrait Gallery and other copyright owners as specified. CLIFFORD POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI (AUSTRALIAN, 1932-2002) View catalog Sold: $11,000.00 Estimate: $8,000 - $14,000 November 19, 2022 10:00 AM CST St. Louis, MO, US Request more information Additional Details Description: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Aboriginal Australian (Anmatyerre), 1932-2002 Perentie Dreaming, c. 1986 Acrylic on canvas STAY CONNECTED Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, and William Sandy are some of the best known Papunya artists. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was an Australian artist born in 1932. Collections include the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney. Four years prior to his birth, a harsh drought had compelled several groups of Aborigines into the Coniston area, producing tensions with local farmers who wanted the scarce water resources for their cattle. Possum was one of the first Aboriginal artists to use acrylic paint for what is now known as the dot art style. One of the extraordinary qualities of Clifford's work and other Western Desert artists is that they are a visual writing and speak to the Aboriginal as books do to Europeans.When asked why he became an Artist, he answered,"That Dreaming been all the time. Toward the end of his life Tjapaltjarri was recognised as one of Australia's great painters, and in 2004, when the National Gallery of Victoria presented Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, he became the first of the Papunya Tula artists to have a retrospective exhibition at a major Australian art museum. Auction Closed /  Conditions were so bad during these years that Possums father perished from lack of water. They been using ochres all the colours from the rock. While Possum declined the offer, he began to recognise the possibility of a vocation as a professional artist. He was the chairman of the Papunya Tula Artists from the 1970's to the 1980's. Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them. Numerous Indigenous Australians are noted for their participation in, and contributions to, the Visual arts of Australia and abroad. That Dreaming carry on. Warlugulong is a 1977 acrylic on canvas painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. While Possum had two small exhibitions in Brisbane and Melbourne in 1987, his first major retrospective was at Londons Institute of Contemporary Art in 1988. Warlugulong was Tjapaltjarris first monumental canvas, and became the template for a series of large-scale paintings made through the late 1970s. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Maps. He learnt ancestral stories from elders like One Pound Jim Tjungurrayi, who took on the role of his father, and was famous for his extensive knowledge of the country. Geoffrey Bardon came to Papunya in the early 1970s and encouraged the Aboriginal people to put their dreaming stories on canvas, stories which had previously been depicted ephemerally on the ground. But a year later his brother Tim died, deeply affecting Possum and ending many years of a close artistic collaboration. I use paint and canvas that's not from us, from European people. Allan, and his mother from Warlugulong, an area southwest of Yuendumu. After completing five works of similar scale and style during the 1970s, Possum began experimenting with colour and subtle modifications of traditional symbols. Clifford possum tjapaltjarri warlugulong 2007 Background Contemporary Indigenous Australian art originated with the Indigenous men of Papunya, located around 240 kilometres (150 mi) northwest of Alice Springs in Australia's Western Desert, who began painting in 1971. Additional documents supplied by Central Australian . International Committee of the Fourth International. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c.1932-2002) was one of the truly visionary Australian artists of the twentieth century. The use of images of works of art reproduced on this website and all other content may be restricted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). In the late 1970's he expanded the scope of Papunya Tula painting by placing the trails of several ancestors on the same canvas in the fashion of a road map. This laid the foundation for traditional Aboriginal Iconography to be placed on canvas. Often these techniques would be carefully interwoven into an integrated composition, overlaid with more dots to producing an illusion of changing spatial depth. LANGUAGE GROUP: Anmatyerre http://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/clifford-possum-tjapaltjarri/. Tjapaltjarri was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2002. Clifford enjoyed a traditional bush upbringing and was given the name Possum by his paternal grandfather. His skill and inventiveness and his enormous enthusiasm for life made him the most celebrated Aboriginal artist of his generation. [17] The artist also modified some of the iconography, and limited the explanations of the painting, omitting secret-sacred dimensions of the stories to avoid offending other Indigenous men, and in recognition that most of the audience for the work would be uninitiated non-Indigenous people. www.redrockgallery.net/pages/Clifford-Possum-Tjapaltjarri.html. This was the last Aboriginal settlement built under the Menzies Liberal governments racist assimilation policy. He was of the Peltharr skin. Sale Date: October 23, 2021. The charcoal grey areas indicate the burnt-out country, and the white dots represent ash. On one level TheCompanion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri led a ground-breaking career and was amongst the vanguard of Indigenous Australian artists to be recognised by the international art world. HID01801242017 Dimensions 50.5in x 28in x 0in Artist or Maker Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (c. 19322002) was a founding member of the artists cooperative established at Papunya in the early 1970s and one of the most renowned practitioners within the Western Desert art movement. After his father's death in the 1940s his mother married Gwoya Jungarai, better known as One Pound Jimmy, whose image was used on a well known Australian postage stamp. The focal point of that show was Napperby Death Spirit Dreaming (1980), a large collaborative painting by Possum and Leura. Tim Johnson became interested in the Papunya Tula Artists after seeing an exhibition of their paintings in Sydney in 1977. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the Kelton Foundation and the Royal Collection. Bears artist's name and title on Art Gallery of South Australia, Clifford Possum Tjapalatjarri Retrospective Tour label, on the protective foam core backing attached to the reverse of stretcher. Possum's father was Tjatjiti Tjungurrayai and his mother was Long Rose Nangala. Tjapaltjarri joined Papunya Tula Artists in February 1972 and was one of their founding directors. 'Tjapaltjarri finally allowed to rest in peace', "Indigenous artwork tipped to sell for $2.5m", ABC News online, "Aboriginal Artwork sells for record price", News Limited, news.com.au, "National Gallery bought dot painting", 25 July 2007, Clifford Possum - An Audio Interview with Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamarra, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifford_Possum_Tjapaltjarri&oldid=1101388819, Clifford Possum, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjari, This page was last edited on 30 July 2022, at 19:35. In June of 2002, Tjapaltjarri traveled to Alice Springs to receive the rank of Officer in the meritorious Order of Australia for Distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or to humanity at large. But on the 21st, the day of the award ceremony, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri passed away. While his year of birth is considered to be approximately correct, the day and month remain undocumented. Their works were mostly Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) stories, representing the creation of significant sites and landforms by ancestral beings along their paths of travel through traditional lands. Reed Enger, "Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Reclaiming the land," in Obelisk Art History, Published January 16, 2020; last modified November 06, 2022, http://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/clifford-possum-tjapaltjarri/. (Sotheby's) A dot painting by Indigenous artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri broke the existing record for an Aboriginal artwork at auction . He refined his skill as a woodcarver while continuing to work as a stockman. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri is perhaps the most famous male Australian Aboriginal artist and his dot art style is very well known - his daughters Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi and Michelle Possum Nungurrayi continue to explore using dot painting techniques today. Some features and content of this website may not work as intended. There was legal controversy surrounding his burial, as his surviving family and community maintained he wished to be buried in a location different from that specified in his will. This iconic painting, 'Man's Love Story' 1978, was purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1980. It became the first 'dot' painting to enter a major public art collection. [9], This work excludes elements of several dreamings associated with country further south, which had been included in the painting created by Clifford Possum and his brother a year earlier. A little closer to the centre of the painting are marks representing a dreaming called the Chase of the Goanna Men. [12], When the Australian government in 2009 introduced a resale royalty scheme, the sale history of Warlugulong was frequently used to argue in favour of the scheme, designed to ensure that artists and their families continued to benefit from the appreciating value of old works.[18][26][27]. Chicago, Los Angeles and St Louis 1988, 'Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Paintings 1973-1986', retrospective exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; 1990 'l'ete . There is greater visual symmetry in this painting than in its 1976 predecessor; symmetry is a strong influence in the works of many of the early Western Desert artists, including Clifford Possum, Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa. By the time he started visiting Papunya in the mid-1960s he had a well-established reputation as a woodcarver, based on his talent for capturing lifelike effects of motion. Born: Napperby, Northern Territory, Australia circa 1932, Died: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 21 Jun 2002, Language group: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO Born: c.1932; Napperby, Australia Died: June 21, 2002; Alice Springs / Stuart, Australia Nationality: Australian Art Movement: Native Art Painting School: Papunya Tula Field: painting Family and Relatives: Michelle Possum Nungurrayi, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 - 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. https://www.state.gov. The omission led scholar Vivien Johnson to conclude that Warlugulong (1977) portrays a narrower geographic area than the preceding work. Warlugulong was one of the high points in the two brothers artistic collaboration over the years, and also the first in Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarris renowned series of monumental canvases of the late 1970s, which have been likened to vast encyclo-pedic maps of his Tjukurrpa country. His older brother Cassidy Possum Tjapaltjarri was a traditionalist who barely gone outside of the Yuelamu community and was one of most respected elder till his passing in 2006, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was the most famous of the contemporary artists who lived around Papunya, in the Northern Territory's Western Desert area, when the acrylic painting style (known popularly as "dot art") was initiated. It sold for $2.4million, thoroughly eclipsing the previous record for an Indigenous Australian painting, set when Emily Kngwarreye's Earth's Creation was bought in May of the same year for just over $1million. Born at Napperby Station, north-west of Alice Springs, he is the youngest son of One Pound Jimmy Tjungurrayi and Long Rose Nangala [both deceased]. [9] The Gallery's purchase eased tensions of a rumoured Government legal intervention had the work been purchased by an overseas buyer, out of concern that significant indigenous art would be "lost" overseas. Namatjira was the leading Aboriginal artist at the time, finding growing success for his realistic watercolour landscapes that captured the stark and unique beauty of central Australia. Primary Marketplace ( 2022 ): Australia Clifford Possum TJAPALTJARRI is an artist born in Australia c.1932 and deceased in 2002. When Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri joined this group of 'dot and circle' painters early in 1972 he immediately distinguished himself as one of its most talented members and went on to create some of the largest and most complex paintings ever produced". Copyright for artwork images on this website belongs to the artists or their estates. Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum (c. 1932-2002) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia/ Bridgeman Berlin. The auction house trading the work expected it to fetch around $5,000 and did not make a feature of it in the catalogue, but dealers including Hank Ebes, the successful bidder, recognised the painting's significance and it sold for $36,000 plus commission. It lives at the National Gallery of Australia in Australia. In the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Clifford Possum was Chairman of this group and in 1990 presented the Queen Elizabeth II with one of his paintings. The National Gallery acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the Kamberri/Canberra region, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country. The National Portrait Gallery is an Australian Government Agency, oil and polymer vinyl paint on canvas (, The National Portrait Gallery respects the artistic and intellectual property rights of others. Clifford, living at the Papunya Community, was one of the first artists to be involved with the Aboriginal Art Movement. The artist's majestic painting Warlugulong (previously bought by the Commonwealth Bank for just $1,200) was auctioned by Sotheby's on 24 July 2007. Over 60 major paintings, all with detailed annotations and spanning more than two decades of his output, are reproduced in this volume. Namatjira, recognising his obvious talent, inquired whether he wanted to learn to paint in his style. See our exhibitions Like many other Anmatyerr people, his family moved to the east region of their country following the Coniston Massacre of the mid-1920s. [9][10] The artist's images of this period are visually complex, and contain a wide variety of patterns, unified by strong background motifs and structure. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. There was legal controversy surrounding his burial, as his surviving family and community maintained he wished to be buried in a location different from that specified in his will. award rationale. The National Gallery acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the Kamberri/Canberra region, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country. His work lives on through his daughters Gabriella Possum Nungurayyi and Michelle Possum Nungurayyi, successful artists in their own right, who continue to evolve and expand contemporary Australian indigenous art in layered maps of the Dreaming. His brother was Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, whose artwork appeared on another stamp. 2201 C Street NW | Washington, DC 20520 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri is survived by his two daughters, Gabrielle and Michelle, and son Lionel. [8] The work and the price it achieved at auction in 2007 are cited as evidence of both the importance of Clifford Possum as an artist, and of the maturation and growth of the Australian Indigenous art market. His career as an artist began in the 1950's when he carved snakes and goannas. Same all the ladies, they been get all the bush fruit, might be bush onion, plum, might be honey ants, might be yala, all the kungkas (women) bring them back. Possum Tjapaltjarri contributed to the Indigenous Australian Art movement and died on June 21, 2002. No accurate records were ever kept but Possum was born sometime in 1932, in an isolated dry creek bed about 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was the first recognized star of the Western Desert art movement. They been using the dancing boards, spear, boomerang all painted. His mother, Long Rose Nangala and father, Tjatjiti Tjungurrayi, were members of the Anmatyerre tribal group living on ancestral lands near Napperby cattle station. In 1976, with the assistance of Tim Leura, he painted Warlugulong 1976, which he later described as his number one painting. Like Albert Namatjira before him, Clifford Possum blazed a trail for future generations of Indigenous artists; bridging the gap between Aboriginal art and contemporary Australian art. This heightened his appreciation of the idea that a painting might function as a map, and as a unified embodiment of place, identity and spirituality. The work had been tipped to fetch up to A$2.5 million, more than double the then-record for Aboriginal art at auction. His friendships and collaborations with Tjapaltjarri and other artists helped Johnson 'see the surface of a painting like a field representing the entire universe.' He made a significant impact in 1971 and remained inarguably a noteworthy artist even after his death in 2002. Tjapaltjarri had been a part of the Papunya art community for four years and was one of their most successful and respected artists, but it was his previous career as a stockman working on central Australias pastoral stations, or ranches, that made him uniquely qualified for the project. His obituaries, which appeared in newspapers around the world, generally referred to him as Clifford Possum and gave his age as about 70. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, one of the acknowledged pioneers of the contemporary Australian Aboriginal art movement which emerged at Papunya settlement in central Australia in the early 1970s, died in Alice Springs on June 21. Requests for a reproduction of a work of art or other content can be made through a Reproduction request. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Clifford Tilmouth Colin Bird Colleen Wallace Nungari Connie Nakamarra Fisher Corinne Nampijinpa Ryan Cornelius Jungarrayi Spencer Cowboy Louie Pwerle D Dadu Gorey Nungarrayi Danny Japaljarri France David Angus Jungala Deborah Napaljarri Wayne Debra Nangala McDonald Debra Young Nakamarra Delores Furber Napaltjarri The Gallery's purchase eased tensions of a rumoured Government legal intervention had the work been purchased by an overseas buyer, out of concern that significant indigenous art would be "lost" overseas. Police claimed that the Aborigines had killed a local dingo hunter. The painting illustrates the story of an ancestral being called Lungkata, together with eight other dreamings associated with localities about which Clifford Possum had traditional knowledge. Images may not be reproduced for any reason without express permission from the artist. For the first time many different legends were told or mapped on one canvas, each story layered one upon the other. 1977 painting by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tjapaltjarri (in Western Desert dialects) is a, A separate, smaller work with the similar title, "Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri: Larger than Life", "Dreaming Story at Warlugulong (Warlukurlangu)", "Aboriginal artwork sells at record price", "A pretty good result all round, possums", "Clifford Possum artwork sells for record price", "National Gallery of Australia unveils major painting by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Warlugulong 1977", "Aboriginal artists gain royalties for resold art", List of Indigenous Australian art movements and cooperatives, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warlugulong&oldid=1105769071, Collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 18:20. These included a number of paintings depicting Warlugulong, the Bushfire Dreaming story relating to his mother's birthplace. Closed Good Friday & Christmas day [25] The Gallery considers the painting to be possibly the most important in its collection of Indigenous Australian art. [4] He was buried at Yuelamu, which had been the preference of his community and daughters, several weeks after his death.[5]. His obituaries, which appeared in newspapers around the world, generally referred to him as Clifford Possum and gave his age as about 70. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the Kelton Foundation, and the Royal Collection. [13] Clifford Possum would often collaborate with other artists, particularly his brother Tim Leura, and the brothers together created the 1976 work of the same name. Photo: Professor JVS Megaw, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Possum_Tjapaltjarri. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. In the late 1950s he was employed, along with his older brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and other Aborigines, to assist in the construction of Papunya settlement. Clifford developed his own unique style that included secular non-traditional motifs. Source See Warlugulong in the Kaleidoscope. In 2002 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service as a contributor to and pioneer of the development of the Western Desert art movement, and to the Indigenous community through interpretation of ancient traditions and cultural values., Vivien Johnson in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014, Open daily Clifford POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI - Love Story 1997, 91 x 145cm ADG:1074 ADG: 1074 Description CLICK HERE TO VIEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Love Story - Story of painting This painting tells of a young Tjungurrayi man who fell in love with a Napangati woman, however she was the wrong skin group and was not allowed to marry him. 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