Item - MacDonnell Range near Alice Springs

ID UNSW D 1961/0281 (075775)
Artist Ewald NAMATJIRA (1930 - 1984)
Title MacDonnell Range near Alice Springs
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Category Drawing
Medium watercolour on paper
Materials watercolour pigments, watercolour paper
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 36.00
  Width 53.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Frame: 64 x 76.5 x 3.5 cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location lower centre
  Signed in black pigment: Edwald Namatjira
Produced  
  When 1961
  Where Australia, NT, Hermannsburg
Style Arunta Watercolour School
Subject Landscape
Credit Line Purchased 1961
Description/Remarks    Image depicts a tree-lined escarpment in background, orange and purple rocky midscape surrounding a low-lying plain dotted with spindly black-trunked trees; a lone Eucalyptus tree in left foreground; all painted in the brightly-coloured and starkly contrasted Battarbee or Aranda style. Inscribed on verso of support: EW 1053 and initialled in black ink.
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