Purnululu
Artist:
Patrick Mung Mung
(Indigenous Australian, born 1948)
Place made:Australia
General region:Oceania
Date: 2007
Dimensions:
35 7/16 x 47 1/4 in. (90 x 120 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Lam Family
Object number: 2016.14.50
Copyright: © Patrick Mung Mung
Provenance: Sold through Warmun Art to May Lam and Dr. Dorothy Lam; May Lam and Dr. Dorothy Lam, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2016
Label Text
This planar, aerial view and the carefully dotted borders are typical features of paintings by Patrick Mung Mung. The painting depicts the 350-million-year-old Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park, in east Kimberley—as does the adjacent work, by Mung Mung’s wife, Betty Carrington. The banded sandstone domes portrayed in the bottom half of the canvas are the result of layer upon layer of sediment. The artist regularly visited this site with his family as a child.
Mung Mung, son of the late artist George Mung Mung (Gija, ca. 1921–1991), worked as a cattle stockman before beginning painting shortly after his father’s passing, in 1991. A departure from his father’s aesthetic, his work is more abstracted and his palette considerably more varied.
(Exhibition label, 2017)
Mung Mung, son of the late artist George Mung Mung (Gija, ca. 1921–1991), worked as a cattle stockman before beginning painting shortly after his father’s passing, in 1991. A departure from his father’s aesthetic, his work is more abstracted and his palette considerably more varied.
(Exhibition label, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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