Wednesday 12 August 2015

Carrolup Paintings

Felicia R. Lee Aug 15 2005 New York Times
Youthful art, Aboriginal history
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/arts/design/youthful-art-aboriginal-history.html?_r=0

Paintings from late 1940s and 50s made at the 'Carrolup River Native Settlement' (stolen children) Western Australia, taken on tour in 1950s by British patron Florence Rutter, donated to Picker Gallery in 1966 by Herbert Mayer, rediscovered by Howard Morphy in 2004.

Artists include: Parnell Dempster, Revel Cooper

Florence Rutter and M.D. Miller, Child Artists of the Australian Bush, 1952

Colgate University Collection here  flickr

Tracie Pushman and Robyn Smith Walley, Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago). The University of Western Australia Berndt Museum of Anthropology Occasional Paper No.8,  (Perth, The University of Western Australia, 2006).

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25475896?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Bella Kelly Website here
Bella Kelly exhibition at Curtin

Anna Haebich, The Return of the Carrolup Paintings in Griffith Review 47 

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