Wenten Rubuntja

Also known as Wenton Rubuntja
  • Artist (Painter)
Wenten painted both Hermannsburg landscapes and paintings using traditional desert Dreaming designs. He was taught to paint by Albert Namatjira, his father's cousin.
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Name
Wenten Rubuntja
Also known as Wenton Rubuntja
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Chairman (ANZSIC code: 9559) (Chairman Central Land Council.)
  • Drover (ANZSIC code: 0529) (Drover At stations across Central Australia including Hamilton Downs in his grandfather's country Ntyerlpe, Undoolya Station, Maryvale and Napperby.)
  • Timber cutter (ANZSIC code: 1411)
Death date
2005
Residence
  • Alice Springs, NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Arrente
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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Alternative names
  • Wenton Rubuntja
  • Wenton Rubuntja
Related people
  • Namatjira, Albert (associate of)
  • Namatjira, Albert (relative of)
  • Namatjira, Albert (associate of)
  • Namatjira, Albert (relative of)
Related person groups
  • Chairman of Central Land Council (associate of)
  • Chairman of Central Land Council (associate of)
Related collections
  • Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • Catholic Church, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
  • Catholic Church, Alice Springs, NT (collected in)
Field Changes
Biography
Initial contributors
  • Johnson, VivienNote: primary biographer
  • Johnson, Vivien Note: primary biographer
Date modified April 10, 2011, 10:25 p.m. April 10, 2011, 10:25 p.m.