PROVENANCE
David Mortimer Collection, Alice Springs
This unusually large and fine painting on masonite was executed in 1977-78
and brought by Billy into the Pines Homestead Lodge and sold directly to Mortimer.
The board was then nailed up in the dining room where it stayed until the Lodge
was demolished to make way for the local K-mart store.
Billy Stockman worked as a stockman on Napperby Station before arriving at
Papunya. He was chairman of Papunya Tula Artists in the 1970s, a central Australian
delegate to the National Aboriginal Congress (1976) and a member of the Australia
Council's Aboriginal Arts Board (1975-79). Billy Stockman also attended the
opening of the major exhibition "Dreaming: The Art of Aboriginal Australia" in
New York in 1988. He now resides in Alice Springs.
REPRESENTED
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
National Museum of Australia
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
South Australian Museum
The Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
