LONG JACK PHILLIPUS TJAKAMARRA

Painted at Papunya in April 1974
Private collection, New South Wales

The colours are slightly deeper and richer in the actual work than what appears in the reproduction. There is no visible scuffs or scratches and the work is in very godo condition consistent with age and use.
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Cf. A series of earlier paintings of Water Dreamings by the artist are recorded by Geoffrey Bardon in Bardon, G. and J. Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, pp.171-3. In particular, see Water Dreaming with Water Man, 1971, p.171, painting 78, illus

An early large canvas by this artist: Water Dreamings are a recurring theme in his work. Tjakamarra, along with Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula and Old Walter Tjampitjinpa, is a custodian of the storm centre and Water and Rain Dreaming totemic site of Kalipinypa, 300 to 400 kilometres west of Alice Springs. This painting displays the classic desert iconography for Water or Rain Dreamings, the two roundels linked by a series of meanders, representing rain or running water, adjacent to which are series of alternating double bars representing clouds