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Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson BIOGRAPHY
c.1935 Anamarapiti, Western Australia - 2017 Alice Springs, Western Australia. Known for: Aboriginal painting.
Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert. He was described by one critic as... Read full biography
Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert". Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior... Read full biography
Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert". Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior Pitjantjatara elder and Law man of Karima skin group. He was born around 1935 in Anumarapiti, 75 kilometers west of Irrunytju,[5] also known as Wingellina, in Western Australia, near the junction of its... Read full biography
Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert". Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior Pitjantjatara elder and Law man of Karima skin group. He was born around 1935 in Anumarapiti, 75 kilometers west of Irrunytju,[5] also known as Wingellina, in Western Australia, near the junction of its border with the Northern Territory and South Australia. His given names of Yannima and Pikarli relate to specific sites near Anumarapiti. Watson's mother died during his infancy, and his father when he was about eight years old. He subsequently went to... Read full biography
Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert". Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior Pitjantjatara elder and Law man of Karima skin group. He was born around 1935 in Anumarapiti, 75 kilometers west of Irrunytju,[5] also known as Wingellina, in Western Australia, near the junction of its border with the Northern Territory and South Australia. His given names of Yannima and Pikarli relate to specific sites near Anumarapiti. Watson's mother died during his infancy, and his father when he was about eight years old. He subsequently went to live with his father's brother, who himself died two years later. Tommy was then adopted by Nicodemus Watson, his father's first cousin. I... Read full biography
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Yannima Pikarli Watson, Tommy Watson Yannima
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Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert".
Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior Pitjantjatara elder and Law man of Karima skin group. He was born around 1935 in Anumarapiti, 75 kilometers west of Irrunytju,[5] also known as Wingellina, in Western Australia, near the junction of its border with the Northern Territory and South Australia. His given names of Yannima and Pikarli relate to specific sites near Anumarapiti.
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