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	Hermannsburg School
		Alberts early years were spent on the mission where he became proficient in the trades of carpentry and flsmithing.
		Maurice was born the fifth son of Albert and Rubina in 1939.
		Cordula was born the niece of Albert Namatjira.
	www.hermannsburgschool.com /?artists (2471 words)

	Albert Namatjira Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 — 1959), born Elea Namatjira is an Australian Aboriginal artist of the Aranda tribe.
		After a western style upbringing on the mission, Albert undertook the Aboriginal ritual of initiation at the age of thirteen and was exposed to traditional culture and obtained the love and respect of his land that was show in his works.
		Unfortunately Albert was not legally allowed to supply his Aboriginal friends with alcohol, which was expected of him by the culture of his tribe who did not have the concept of personal property.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Namatjira_Albert.html (788 words)

	Albert Namatjira
		Albert was born in 1902 at the Ntaria (Hermannsburg) mission and was called Elea by his parents - he was baptised with the name Albert in 1905.
		Drawings by Namatjira and other students at the time reflect the content of what they were taught, and also their daily lives: hunting scenes, people and animals, and ceremonies.
		Namatjira has become famous as the first aborigine artist of the desert to lead the move into contemporary media, and to paint landscapes in a European fashion.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-Namatjira.htm (568 words)

	Namatjira's legacy continues 100 years after his birth - theage.com.au
		Albert Namatjira was bemused when he tried on the first suit he had ever owned in 1954 in preparation for meeting the Queen.
		Albert Namatjira was by then a household name, with prints of his landscapes adorning the living rooms of a generation of Australians.
		Namatjira was suspected of supplying the grog behind several violent crimes, including murder, at the Morris Soak Camp outside Alice Springs.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/04/1025667033632.html (1161 words)

	Albert Namatjira: Hermannsburg Artist - Page 1 of 2
		Albert attended the mission school and was taught drawing as part of the education offered by the mission.
		Albert Namatjira was quick to take up this work, producing a number of artefacts that show images of people, trees and animals rather than traditional designs.
		The Hermannsburg Potters trace their connection and lineage in artistic terms either directly from Albert Namatjira, or from watching his work in the camp, or from other artists who painted with him or were associated with him in some way.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /art/namatjira.php (869 words)

	Namatjira, Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Albert Namatjira was the first indigenous artist to paint and exhibit professionally in Western style.
		Namatjira’s first solo exhibition of 41 works was held in Melbourne in 1938.
		He was awarded the Queen’s Coronation medal in 1953; was flown to Canberra to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954; his portrait, by William Dargie, won the Archibald prize in 1956; and in 1957 he was granted citizenship (a status denied to most Aboriginal people at the time).
	www.anbg.gov.au /biography/namatjira-albert.html (218 words)

	Albert Namatjira: copyright estates and traditional knowledge
		In the case of Albert Namatjira, this means that by 2009, fifty years after his death, the copyright in his paintings will expire.
		The potential for this to cause concern to the Namatjira family is exacerbated by the fact that most of his paintings are held in private collections - not public art galleries - which, especially in Australia, tend to implement strict guidelines and protocols associated with the reproduction of artists' works.
		The case of Albert Namatjira is not an isolated one.
	www.alia.org.au /publishing/incite/2003/06/albert.namatjira.html (925 words)

	Australia Post Stamps -- Albert Namatjira
		Albert Namatjira was born on 28 July 1902 near Ntaria into the Kngwarriya skin.
		Namatjira was very keen to try his own hand at painting.
		Namatjira painted his country, its ranges, sand hills, open plains, grass trees, ghost gums and corkwoods, gorges, chasms, waterholes and mountains.
	www.auspost.com.au /philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=2.582 (867 words)

	ART INDIGENOUS
		Albert Namatjira lives on as the mythic ancestor of the Aboriginal Art market, especially for the painters around Papunya, where he lived out his open gaol sentence just before his death on 8 August 1959.
		Namatjira’s power to shock was limited by the size of his paper, closer to greeting cards than to the blow-ups for framed reproductions.
		Namatjira’s 1957 removal from the category of “ward of the state” exposed the fallacy of equating citizenship with the rights of an individual rather than with his circumstances as a social being.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~loge27/art_indig/art_indig_namatjira.htm (2093 words)

	Namatjira's turn to be seen in new light - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the letter was sent, Namatjira, from the Aranda tribe, was one of Australia's best-known personalities, as familiar to his fellow countrymen as any cricketer or popular entertainer.
		And as for "the red centre", Namatjira's palette, with his soft and subtle colours, showed it as it is - a land of infinite variety.
		In the end, perhaps Namatjira's greatest talent was to interpret a country that was more than a landscape to him and his people, to portray it with all the intimacy and sacredness of the Aboriginal perspective in terms that white people could understand.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/23/1027332377267.html (987 words)

	Albert Namatjira: Hermannsburg Artist - Page 2 of 2
		Albert Namatjira showed his paintings for the first time when Pastor Albrecht exhibited ten of them in Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley.
		In 1954 the National Gallery of Victoria rejected a recommendation to purchase one of Albert Namatjira's pictures, and it was to be many years before he achieved his full standing as a major Australian artist.
		Thus, in 1958, in a brawl in which a woman was killed by her husband, some people felt that Namatjira was responsible because it was through his citizenship that alcohol had entered the community.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /art/namatjira-2.php (1080 words)

	Seeing the Centre: the art of Albert Namatjira - Gallery
		Namatjira's early paintings of the mountain rely on alternate placement of light and dark areas within broad, relatively flat shapes, to establish the effect of the sun in defining its unique topography and enclosing folds.
		In Albert Namatjira's art, their position in the foreground and at the perimeter of horizontal formats adds depth in different ways.
		When Albert Namatjira visited Sydney in 1956 as the guest of the writer Frank Clune, whose travel books helped popularise central Australia in the 1950s, he spent five consecutive mornings in the studio of well-known portrait painter, William Dargie.
	www.nga.gov.au /namatjira/Gallery.htm (492 words)

	FW: The Albert Namatjira Collection
		Albert Namatjira was initiated as a young man into the sacred tribal ways, and was taught the tribal customs and ancient laws of the Western Aranda.
		The 1956 portrait of Albert Namatjira by artist Sir William Dargie, which won the Archibald Prize, captures the great strength and dignity of the artist three years before he died.
		Albert Namatjira died at the Alice Springs Hospital on August 8, 1959 and was buried the next day in the Alice Springs Cemetery.
	www.internal.schools.net.au /listserver/art-edu/msg00180.html (941 words)

	TIME.com: Bushman to Brushman -- Mar. 29, 1954 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky fl member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver.
		Namatjira's rise started when two Melbourne artists, Rex Battarbee and John Gardner, came to the bush on a painting trip and showed some of their watercolors to the Hermannsburg aborigines.
		Albert made the 1,200-mile journey to Canberra in response to a gold-crested invitation to meet his sovereign.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,819694,00.html (728 words)

	Heritage: Albert Namatjira's Memorial - NRETA - NT Government - Australia
		The Albert Namatjira Memorial was funded, designed and constructed by friends and supporters of a famous Australian artist.
		Namatjira, a landscape artist, captured the remarkable scenery of Central Australia in a distinctive style that has become internationally renowned as the Hermannsburg School of watercolour painting.
		The associations of the memorial with Albert Namatjira and importantly his continued 'presence' as a part of the history of Hermannsburg and Central Australia, along with the personalties of Rex Batterbee, Pastor F.W.Albrecht and others, provide a tangible acknowledgment of the life of a famous Australian.
	www.nt.gov.au /nreta/heritage/ntregister/declared/display.html?anm (236 words)

	Albert Namatjira "Central Australian Landscape" ciara print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Albert Namatjira was one Australia's most notable artists.
		Namatjira was born into the Arrernte community at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission, near Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
		Namatjira then attempted to build a house in Alice Springs, but was hampered under the terms of the Aboriginals Ordinance (NT) 1918–1947.
	www.musicnow.com.au /art_gallery/rare_prints/namatjira.htm (278 words)

	GF's Koori History Website - political pix
		Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's great artists, and perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter.
		Fame led to Albert and his wife becoming the first Aborigines to be granted Australian citizenship.
		Albert was a celebrity, but not always a comfortable one.
	www.kooriweb.org /foley/images/history/albert/albertdx.html (533 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 145 - Albert Namatjira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Albert Namatjira (1902–59) was one Australia’s most notable artists.
		Namatjira, Albert – question of ownership of land in NT 1951–52
		Albert Namatjira – grazing licence – 1377 Areyonga Copper Deposit
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS145.html (694 words)

	Queensland Art Gallery - Seeing the Centre
		Albert Namatjira's paintings are important statements about his culture, identity, and connection to his country.
		During his lifetime, Namatjira produced majestic watercolours of the central Australian landscape, inspired generations of artists at the Hermannsburg Mission where he was born, and became the first Aborigine to be granted full Australian citizenship.
		This retrospective exhibition pays tribute to Namatjira as one of Australia's best-known artists and a proud Arrernte (Aranda) man who, throughout his life, remained deeply committed to his culture.
	www.qag.qld.gov.au /exhibitions/past_exhibitions?a=5017 (168 words)

	Seeing the Centre: the art of Albert Namatjira
		Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's best-known artists, whose landscape paintings are iconic images synonymous with the Australian outback.
		However, one hundred years after his birth on 28 July 1902, Namatjira has become both a national symbol and a scapegoat for the social policies and aesthetic prejudices of the time, his art virtually ignored by the mainstream Australian art world.
		Namatjira's paintings express his relationship with the Arrernte country, particularly the Western Arrernte lands, for which he was a traditional custodian.
	www.nga.gov.au /Namatjira/Index.htm (318 words)

	Namatjira, Albert (Elea) (1902 - 1959) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Albert (Elea) Namatjira (1902 - 1959), by unknown photographer, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
		NAMATJIRA, ALBERT (ELEA) (1902-1959), artist, was born on 28 July 1902 at Hermannsburg (Ntaria), Northern Territory, son of Namatjira and his wife Ljukuta.
		Although Namatjira is best known for his water-colour landscapes of the Macdonnell Ranges and the nearby region, earlier in his career his imagery had included tjuringa designs, biblical themes and figurative subjects.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A150530b.htm (1019 words)

	New stamps mark Albert Namatjira centenary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"As well as being the Centenary of Albert Namatjira’s birth, 2002 is also the Year of the Outback, the heart of which Namatjira captured beautifully.
		In addition to the stamps, Australia Post is releasing a souvenir booklet, containing photographs, images of Albert Namatjira’s art and information about his country, culture and people.
		Namatjira’s first solo exhibition of 41 works was held in Melbourne in 1938.
	www.auspost.com.au /BCP/0,1080,CH2591~MO19,00.html (497 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| July 28 \| Õlavsøka Eve Faroe Islands Gerard Manley ...
		Albert Namatjira was born to Christian parents whose background had been as tribal people in the northern deserts.
		Namatjira’s first public showing was two years later, in Melbourne, and proved to be a great success as his superb watercolours drew the attention of art lovers.
		Albert Namatjira descended into depression and alcoholism, eventually finding himself jailed for two months for providing alcohol to family members.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jul28.html (3393 words)

	Namatjira painting expected to set record \| NEWS.com.au
		Namatjira was one of the first Aborigines to paint in a contemporary style with western-style painting materials.
		Namatjira, who was one of Battarbee's camel drivers, took notice of Battarbee's work and asked the artist to teach him watercolour painting.
		Namatjira excelled and created more than 2000 works spanning 20 years, of which 800 have been known to be sold publicly.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,23599,20609923-1702,00.html (555 words)

	Namatjira honoured with stamp set - theage.com.au
		Ground-breaking Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira was honoured with an Australia Post stamp launch today to commemorate the centenary of his birth.
		The artist was born Elea Namatjira to Arrernte parents at the Hermannsburg mission on July 28, 1902.
		Almost 50 of Namatjira's relatives travelled 120km from Hermannsburg for the launch at Alice Springs' Araluen Centre for the Arts and Entertainment.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/02/1023864729427.html (294 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		Speaking at the National Gallery of Australia, Arts and Indigenous Affairs Spokesperson, Senator Aden Ridgeway, said copyright protection of the work of Albert Namatjira is due to expire in 2009, leaving his work without even the limited protections associated with copyright law.
		"Albert Namatjira is a cultural icon, a trailblazer - the first Indigenous visual artist who used Western style painting to express his relationship to his land and his continuing links to it.
		Albert's life and work have inspired other Aboriginal people to paint.
	www.eniar.org /news/art4.html (1619 words)

	Albert Namatjira Essays
		Albert Namatjira was an Aboriginal artist well known for his watercolours of Australia’s outback.
		The Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Albert Namatjira by Sir William Dargie (1956) Albert Namatjira’s Early Life Albert Namatjira was born into the Arunta (also called Aranda) tribe near Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission (near Alice Springs) on 28 July 1902.
		Not much is known about Namatjira’s early life except that the staff at the mission noted his skills as a flsmith and a carpenter.
	www.houseofessays.com /viewpaper/44.html (303 words)

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