Johnny Tjupurrula Warangkula b. c.1920

Also known as Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warrangula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warankula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warrangula Tjaparula, Johnny W. Tjupurrula, W. Johnny
  • Artist (Painter)
One of the founders of Papunya Tula Artists and most renowned painters of the desert art movement, whose signature techniques of overdotting produced effects of "tremulous illusion".
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  • Museums & Art Galleries of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
  • Flinders University Art Museum, VIC
  • Alice Springs Law Courts, NT
  • Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT
  • National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, SA
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
  • National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  • Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
  • Holmes a Court Collection, WA

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References [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.>, <ExternalResource: Bardon, Geoffrey and Bardon, James (2004), 'Papunya: A Place Made After the Story; The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement', Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, VIC ISBN-10 : 0-522-85110-X / ISBN-13: 978-0522851106.>]