Eubena (Yupinya) Nampitjin | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Eubena (Yupinya) Nampitjin. - click to view larger image

born about 1920, Manyjilyjarra, Kukatja, Wangkajunga, Putijarra language groups, Nampitjin skin group, Balgo community, Warlayirti Artists

Eubena grew up around Jarntu and Nyirla. With her first husband, Gimme, she travelled north along the Canning Stock Route with the drovers.

While raising their six daughters at Balgo mission, Eubena helped Gimme and a local priest compile a Kukatja-language dictionary.

Eubena began a famous painting partnership with her second husband, Wimmitji Tjapangarti, and her paintings have inspired the work of many other members of her extended desert family.

A textured yellow-orange toned painting on brown linen with a curved vertically lined red section in the top right corner with a white and red oval above it. On the top left and middle half of the painting are curved and straight vertical stripes in yellow, pink, orange, burgundy, red and white with two orange-yellow circles towards the middle section of the painting. The bottom left has an outlined rounded rectangle with horizontal stripes in yellow divided by thin dotted lines in white, red, orange or pink. The right side of the painting features a curved vertical section which follows the edge of the shape on the left and fills the area with yellows and a little bit of pink, white, red and orange. - click to view larger image — *Kinyu*

An orange toned painting on brown linen with a curve of dark orange starting at top right and ending at the centre of the left edge. This curve is above a rounded shape in yellow and orange with pink vertical stripes and several smaller round shapes. In the lower portion is a rectangular shape with blended orange, yellow and pink vertical brushstrokes. - click to view larger image — *Kunawarritji and Kinyu*

A yellow toned textured painting on brown linen with a vertical line of six small red-pink circles down the centre. Most of the painting has vertical uneven stripes in yellow with pink, dark pink and white thin lines between. The right side has a shorter line of six red circles at the top and a rectangular shape at the bottom corner with pink and orange uneven vertical stripes and a red circle above it. In the middle section next to the line of red circles is a long round ended concentric line with rows of red, yellow, white and pink inside. On the left side there is a vertical line of four joined outlined shapes with uneven stripes in them in yellow with pink, white and orange thinner lines. At the bottom edge is an apricot coloured section. - click to view larger image — *Kinyu*

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