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Emu
Emu
Emu
Emu
Emu
Emu
Emu
Emu - Image 1
Emu - Image 2
Emu - Image 3
Emu - Image 4
Emu - Image 5
Emu - Image 6
Emu - Image 7
Artist Name
Emily Kam Kngwarray
Artwork Name
Emu, 1990
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on linen on oval board
Dimensions
55 x 85 cm (oval)
Inventory ID
INV-KAME-0317

Provenance

The Artist, painted at Utopia, Northern Territory
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association - CAAMA, cat. no. 1
The Collection of Ladue Investment Partnership, United States of America, acquired from the above
Modern + Contemporary Art, Shapiro Auctioneers, Melbourne, 10 December 2003, lot 159
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Utopia Body Paint, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis University, 4 April - 31 July, 1997; Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 31 December 1993 - 28 February 1994; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 26 March - 5 June 1994; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 22 June - 9 August 1994; Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, 14 September - 23 October 1994; Everhart Museum, Scranton, 6 November 1994 - 5 February 1995; Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 6 March - 15 May 1995; Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, 3 June - 15 August 1995; Art Gallery, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, 15 September - 27 October 1995; Canadian Musem of Civilization, Hull, 13 June - 1 December 1996; Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, DATE; Saint Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, 4 April – 31 July, 1997.Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, February 26 - April 13, 2008; The National Art Centre, Tokyo, May 28 - July 28, 2008; National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 22 August – 12 October 2008 Emily Kam Kngwarray, Tate Modern, London, 10 July - 15 November 2026

Literature

Patrick McCaughey, Utopia Body Paint: A Collection of 77 Paintingsby Australian Aboriginal Artistsat Utopia, Central Australia, A North American Tour, LIPS Inc.,
St Louis, 1993, front cover (illus.)
Jennifer Loureide Biddle, Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2007, front cover, title page and p. 40 (illus.)
Margo Neale, Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2008, p. 59 (illus.) and p. 217 (illus. catalogue Japan)
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