Joe Rootsey
Subtitle: Queensland Aboriginal painter 1918 - 63
By: essays by Bruce McLean and Diane Hafner
Contributors: Rootsey, Joe, 1918-1963; Hafner, Diane; Queensland Art Gallery
Publisher: Queensland Art Gallery
Published: 2010
Place of publication: South Brisbane, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781921503146
Subjects: Exhibitions; Aboriginal Australian Art
Description: Joe Alimindjin Rootsey was one of Queensland's first indigenous people to be recognised as a contemporary artist. An inveterate sketcher, his artistic leanings were discovered by medical social worker Joan Innes Reid during a period of hospitalisation in north Queensland in the mid 1950s.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 7 July - 3 October 2010.