Rex Battarbee
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Reginald Ernest Battarbee, was an Australian artist notable for painting landscapes of Central Australia, and for teaching Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira to paint.
Portrait of Rex Battarbee (right) with Albert Namatjira (l.) and Axel Poignant (c.), 1946.
The Battarbee's home in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) during a royal visit in 1963
Arrernte people
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The Arrernte people are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the Arrernte lands at Mparntwe and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Many still
Rex Battarbee
…in 1934 to paint the Macdonnell and James ranges, Battarbee and Gardner again displayed their work at Hermannsburg—this time for the benefit of the Arrernte people. The representation of places familiar to the Indigenous people had great impact; among the viewers was Albert Namatjira, then known simply as Albert…
Arrernte welcoming dance, entrance of the strangers, Alice Springs, Central Australia, 9 May 1901, photograph
Artist Albert Namatjira was a Western Arrernte man.
The Hunters of the Central Australian Desert: Arunta Hunter diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum