The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art is the largest exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever presented internationally. The artwork featured in this exhibition are designed to elicit a sense of awe, while introducing visitors to the art, resilience, and depth of the world’s longest continuous cultures. Through a rich display of iconic masterpieces—many of which have never before left Australia—The Stars We Do Not See charts watershed moments in Indigenous art from the late 19th century to the present.

Shop Exhibition Prints

The Kirkland Collection

Indigenous Arts of North America

Hiroshi Yoshida, El Capitan, 1925
Asian Art
Camille Pissarro, Autumn, Poplars, Éragny (Automne, peupliers, Éragny), 1894
Impressionism

Collection Highlights

Gustave Doré, The Family of Street Acrobats: the Injured Child (La famille du saltimbanque: l'enfant blessé), 1873
Doré
The Family of Street Acrobats
Vincent van Gogh, Edge of Wheat Field with Poppies, 1887
van Gogh
Edge of Wheat Field with Poppies
William Adolphe Bouguereau, Childhood Idyll (Idylle enfantine), 1900
Bouguereau
Childhood Idyll
Birger Sandzén, A Mountain Symphony (Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado), 1927
Sandzén
A Mountain Symphony
Maynard Dixon, Wide Lands of the Navajo, 1945
Dixon
Wide Lands of the Navajo
Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of a Lady, about 1793
Lawrence
Portrait of a Lady
Sebastián López de Arteaga, Apparition of Saint Michael on Mount Gargano, Mexico, about 1650
López de Arteaga
Apparition of Saint Michael on Mount Gargano, Mexico
Claude Monet, Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas), 1904
Monet
Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas)