JANANGOO BUTCHER CHEREL CIRCA 1920-2009 | Four Winds

Painted in 2001 for Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
Private Collection, Melbourne
The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Miami, acquired from the above by private treaty

Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting, 13 February to 13 May 2015, and additional venues:
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, 20 June to 16 August 2015
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, 17 September 2015 to 3 January 2016
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, 18 January to 15 May 2016
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, New York, 9 June to 14 August 2016

Henry F. Skerritt, ed. et al, No Boundaries: Australian Aboriginal Contemporary Abstract Painting, Prestel Verlag, Munich-London-New York, 2014, p.47, p.49 (illus.)

Signed “Butcher” and bears Mangkaja Arts number PCZ56/01 on reverse. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, on stretcher, unframed. Please note, there is minor scuffing at the corners and perimeters of the painting consistent with handling during its production. The work appears to be in excellent condition overall with no visible evidence of repair or restoration.
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The seasonal calendar of the Gooniyandi is marked by four winds that blow from different directions; these are created by four ancestral Snakes who send different types of rains and storms, and that are each associated with a skin or subsection name of Gooniyandi society: Joongoorra blows from the east, Jawalyi from the west, Jawandi the south wind and Jangala, the most powerful of them all is the north wind. The four seasons of the Gooniyandi are: Ngamari, the female cold weather period; Girlinggoowa the male cold weather time; Barranga, is characterized by very hot weather; and Yidirla is the wet season when rivers run. WC