BENJAMIN LANDARA (1921-1985), AUSTRALIA ABORIGINAL ARTIST,WATERCOLOR PAINTING

Description

Offered is a watercolor painting by Australian aboriginal artist, Benjamin Landara. Featured is a scene of the outback landscape in the Western Arrente region of Australia's Northern Territory. This painting has a sight size of 14 1/16 x 10 1/16 inches. The wood frame is 19.5 x 15.75 inches. The painting is signed bottom right and is under glass. Both the painting and frame are in excellent condition. This painting comes from a local estate where other Australian aboriginal art was purchased.
Benjamin Landara is an historic member of the Hermannsburg watercolor school. Famously, it was Albert Namatjira whose representations of the dramatic scenery of the Australian interior west of Alice Springs founded this movement. Namatjira gained an unexpected burst of financial success and celebrity status, unheard of for an Aborigine at that time. This changed the course of Australian art. He went on to encourage his extended family members to take up the brush and follow in his footsteps. Benjamin Landara was included in that foundational group. He was related to the Ebataringa family, also artists, and married Namatjira's daughter, Maisie. By the late 1940s he was painting alongside Albert, his early work revealing the master's influence.
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