This fine watercolor landscape painting was executed by Enos Namatjira, a member of the Aranda (Arunta) people and the eldest son of Albert Namatjira, founder and master painter of the Hermannsburg School of Modern Art. The so-called Hermannsburg school arose at the Lutheran mission in the eponymous town under the influence of the Victorian-born and English-trained painter Rex Battarbee. An exhibition of his paintings inspired Albert to see his homeland in a new way, and he implored Battarbee to instruct him in the ways of European painting. Thus was born the Hermannsburg school, which came to encompass a number of Aranda artists. Although not a prolific artist, Enos Namatjira attained to refinement in his paintings and had developed a style peculiarly his own by the 1940s, which coincided with his evolution from painting on boomerangs and shields to paper in 1945. This fine painting features an eucalyptus tree in the foreground and a striking purple-and-blue rendering of the MacDonnell ranges behind a tree-studded landscape.