Bush Flowers

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Artist Mary Kenmare Morton (1931– 2016)

Culture Alyawarr

Title Bush Flowers

Date Late 20th–early 21st century

Medium Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 17 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (43.8 x 33.7 cm)
Support: 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

Credit Line Gift in honor of all Indiana University Art Museum docents from Tina Slapar Jernigan, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2013.163

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Well known for her paintings depicting her Dreamtime stories, Mary Morton was a senior woman among the community at Utopia, and responsible for the initiation of young women. Not surpringly she was also passionate about maintaining and passing along traditional practices. Mary started her artistic career in the late 1970s working along with a group of other Alyawarr and Anmatyerr women on batik. Batik is the decorating of cloth by applying hot wax as a resistance to dye. In the late 1980s she moved to acrylic on canvas as well as wooden sculptures.

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"Bush Flowers | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2013.163