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Albert Namatjira was an indigenous Australian (Aborigine) from Central Australia, who was famous nationally and internationally for his unique art. Namatjira's style was in European watercolours, and he was known for his unique desert landscapes, especially on the Western MacDonnell Ranges, with their striking detail and earthy colours.

Namatjira was also the first Australian Aborigine to be granted Australian citizenship in 1957, ten years before Australian citizenship was offered to all Aborigines. Interestingly, as an Australian Aborigine, he did not have the right to own land or to build a house until the law was changed. Also as an aboriginal citizen within a white society, his children remained wards of the state and if he wanted to build a house himself in Alice Springs they were not permnitted to stay with him,

Namatjira died in August 1959 of Heart disease. His son Keith Namatjira also paints.

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