An extraordinary Indigenous art collection put together by an American woman seeking adventure in Alice Springs in the 1960s goes under the hammer.
In 1966 the political landscape was very different when Lucy Frederickson, a well-travelled former small-town country girl from the United States, arrived in Alice Springs on a mid-life world adventure.Lucy Fredrickson left the United States in the mid-1960s to travel to Asia and to Australia where she ended up Alice Springs working behind a bar
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article may contain images of people who have died. Ms Frederickson had always had a keen sense of adventure and travelled the world with her husband, Oscar Fredrickson Senior, who worked for the US State Department. "People see the finished watercolours, but we're really interested in the cultural and artistic process that led to this famous school," Professor Carty said.
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