Kangaroo 1936

Albert Namatjira's 1936 watercolor painting "Kangaroo" depicts the rugged beauty of the Australian outback. The painting is renowned for its use of vibrant, yet muted, colors to capture the landscape's vastness and the subtle details of the flora. A lone kangaroo stands in the foreground, highlighting the iconic animal of the Australian wilderness, while the distant mountain range evokes a sense of quiet grandeur. This work is representative of Namatjira's signature style of landscape painting, which brought national recognition to the Indigenous artist and helped to bridge the gap between Aboriginal and European art in Australia.