Turtle Bones
Fiona Foley, Badtjula / Australian, born 1964
Badtjula
Fraser Island
Queensland
Australia
2001
Oil on canvas
Overall: 37 × 27 3/16 in. (94 × 69 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner
2011.43.33
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Publication History
Stephen Gilchrist, editor, Crossing Cultures, The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, p. 30, Fig 2.8.
Provenance
Indigenart, Australia; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 2007; given to present collection, 2011.
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