TY - BOOK ID - 80835015 TI - Battarbee and Namatjira PY - 2014 SN - 9781922146700 1922146706 9781922146694 1922146692 PB - Sydney Giramondo Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Artists KW - Landscape painters KW - Painters KW - Persons KW - Namatjira, Albert, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80835015 AB - Battarbee and Namatjira is the double biography of artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission west of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of watercolour painting, through the period of Namatjira's extraordinary popularity as a painter, to his tragic death in 1959, their close relationship was to have a decisive impact on Australian art. This double biography makes extensive use of Battarb ER -