Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri b. c.1932

Also known as Clifford Possum
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Carver)
Leading Papunya Tula artist. One of last men to join Geoffrey Bardon's group of 'painting men' at the beginning of the 1970s and the first to be recognised as an artist in his own right. His illustrious career has been the subject of several books and a major retrospective organised by the Art Gallery of South Australia, which toured nationally in 2003/5.
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Citations

  • Johnson, V. (1993), 'The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’, Sydney, NSW : Craftsman House.

  • Johnson, V. (2003), 'Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’, Adelaide, SA : Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, Alice Springs, NT : IAD Press.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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Related collections
  • Broken Hill Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW (collected in)
  • Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • University of WA Anthropology Museum, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, USA (collected in)
  • Parliament House, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Victorian Centre for the Performing Arts, Melbourne, NSW (collected in)
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Broken Hill Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW (collected in)
  • Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • University of WA Anthropology Museum, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, USA (collected in)
  • Parliament House, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Victorian Centre for the Performing Arts, Melbourne, NSW (collected in)
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)