Battarbee and NamatjiraBattarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists, Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira. One is a white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, and the other is Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of water colour painting, through the period of Namatjira's popularity as a painter, to the