Bark Painting

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Bark Painting

Australia, Croker Island, Minjilang, 1900
Paintings
Bark and pigment
Height: 42 1/2 in. (107.95 cm)
Gift of the Masco Corporation (M.2009.127.8)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Collected before 1920. Wayne Heathcote (b. 1943), New York, NY, sold to; Masco Corporation Collection, Livonia, MI, gift 2009 to; LACMA.

Bibliography

  • Wardwell, Allen. Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1994.