Probably the premier collection of Australian Aboriginal art in the United
States is located at the University of Virginia in the Kluge-Ruhe
Aboriginal Art Collection:
http://www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe/
The collection consists of approximately 10,000 Aboriginal art
objects--sculpture, bark paintings, many from Northern Australia--collected
over a period of decades by Edward Ruhe, purchased in the late 1980s by
John Kluge, and supplemented by Kluge by a fine collection of acrylic
paintings of the Western Desert school, mostly Papunya/Kintore and Balgo
Hills (Warlayirti). Kluge donated nearly the entire collection to UVa in
the early 90s. See:
Art from the land : dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian
Aboriginal art /
Howard Morphy; Margo Smith Boles
1999
vi, 266 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia, ISBN: 0957713509 0646370871 (pbk.)
The Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadenda CA is another possiblity, and I
understand that the Asia Society in New York is planning a 15th anniversary
followup next year to the 1988/89 exhibition "Dreamings" docuemnted in:
Dreamings : the art of aboriginal Australia / Peter Sutton
1988 1st ed.
xiii, 266 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
New York : G. Braziller in association with Asia Society Galleries, ISBN:
0807612014 0807612022 (pbk.) 0878480684 (pbk.)
I know of no single library with extensive holdings in Australian
Aboriginal art in North America, but would likewise be delighted to learn
of one. I have a small bibliography is process now (about 300
titles/articles) and would be happy to field questions if I can be of help.
I am not a member of this list, so please copy me personally on any replies.
Will Owen
Head, Library Systems
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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--On Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:08 PM -0400 Patricia Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Colleagues,
> Would someone point me to a NORTH AMERICAN museum with holdings of
> traditional Australian aboriginal art objects (and, I hope, a library
> with a related collection)?
>
> Your assistance is much appreciated!
> Karen McKenzie
> Chief Librarian
> E.P. Taylor Research Library + Archives
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