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Painting 'Hunting kangaroo' by Lucky Kngwarreye
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Object statement
Painting (3 of 4), acrylic paint on canvas, 'Hunting kangaroo', acrylic paint/canvas/wood/metal, Lucky Kngwarreye, Ngkaweneyerre camp, Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia, 1996
  • This 1996 painting features a kangaroo hunt in which the hunters use a utility rather than moving on foot. This painting shows how much the ute is now part of the Australian indigenous landscape.
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Description
Painting (3 of 4), acrylic paint on canvas, 'Hunting kangaroo', acrylic paint/canvas/wood/metal, Lucky Kngwarreye, Ngkaweneyerre camp, Utopia, Northern Territory, 1996.
An Aboriginal woman stands next to a male who sits with a dead and bleeding kangaroo beside a bright blue water hole. A large brown bus is parked nearby. A small tree is located near the water hole, and the desert landscape is covered with blue, pink, white and yellow flowers. Vivid acrylic paints used on unbleached canvas secured with metal staples to wooden stretchers.
Artist: Kngwarreye, Lucky;
Marks
Designer/painter's name, place of manufacture, title of painting and date in black pencil on verso of canvas, handwritten '- LUCKY KNGWARREYE/ - ALYAWARR/ - ARNKAWENYERR UTOPIA N.T./ - HUNTING KANGAROO/ (Marc Gooch ALICE SPRINGS N.T. AUST)/ 16-4-96'.
96/328/1-3
Height
306 mm
Width
15 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1996

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