An Exhibition of Watercolors by Winnie Bamara
[Adelaide, 'The Sunday Mail'], February 1959.
Octavo, a bifolium with a portrait photograph of the artist reproduced on the first page.
A few light creases; in excellent condition.
'Sponsored by "The Sunday Mail". Public Library Lecture Room, North Terrace, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., February 17-24, 1959'; 29 paintings listed, with prices on all but the four items not for sale. 'Winnie Bamara is a 19-year-old aboriginal living in the Umeewarra Aborigines Mission Station, Port Augusta. She has been there since she was seven. Her art has three remarkable aspects: She has never had a lesson. She does not jot down even one line of a scene she is to paint; she records the scene in her mind and paints it when she returns to the Mission. She has an extraordinarily acute photographic mind. Her painting is completely in the European style' (introductory note). The Australian Art Sales Digest records the activity of a handful of her paintings at auction, but has no biographical data on her. Wikipedia has a great deal of well-referenced information, not least her birth and death dates (circa 1939-40 to 1987).
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