Don Ellis Tjapanangka
Don Ellis Tjapanangka (* 1925 in Australia , † 1976 in Alice Springs , Northern Territory ) was an Aboriginal artist.
Don Ellis Tjapanangka was the son of Old Tom Onion Tjapangati, the keeper of the honey pot ants - dream time . In 1971, Don Ellis was one of seven Aborigines involved in creating the honey pot ant mural in Papunya . Among the Aboriginal people who created this mural, he and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa were the only ones who had been painters before. In 1972 Ellis went to Yuendumu , an Aboriginal settlement in the Western Desert . In 1976 he was murdered by a mentally ill on the Todd River near Alice Springs.
It is believed that after 1971, until his violent death, he painted only ten pictures.
Individual evidence
- ^ Invaluable.com : Sotheby's Australia: Important Aborigines Art , in English, June 5, 2012, accessed August 25, 2012
- ↑ deutscherandhackett.com ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Don Ellis Tjapanangka , in English, June 5, 2012, accessed August 25, 2012
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| SURNAME | Tjapanangka, Don Ellis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |
| Place of death | Alice Springs , Northern Territory , Australia |