People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

28 July, 1902
Ntaria, Northern Territory, Australia

Death

8 August, 1959 (aged 57)
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Indigenous Australian

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Lutheran

Education

• Hermannsburg Mission School (NT)

Occupation or Descriptor

• landscape artist
• painter

Awards

• Queen Elizabeth II coronation medal (1953)

Legacies

• Namatjira territory electorate (NT)

Key Organisations

• Royal Art Society of NSW

Key Places

• Hermannsburg Mission (NT)
• Morris Soak camp (Alice Springs, NT)
• Papunya Aboriginal Settlement (NT)