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Details
- Date
- 1944
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 66.9 x 59.2 cm board; 88.5 x 80.6 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, red/orange oil "Counihan 44".
- Credit
- Purchased 1944
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 7409
- Copyright
- © Estate of Noel Counihan/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Noel Counihan
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 11 exhibitions
Contemporary Art Society Sixth Annual Exhibition (1944), Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 26 Jun 1944–14 Jul 1944
Exhibition of paintings by the Studio of Realist Art (1946), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 11 Oct 1946–26 Oct 1946
Contemporary Australian painting from the National collection, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1946–1950
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 12 Mar 1951–31 Mar 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 09 Apr 1951–28 Apr 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Jun 1951–21 Jul 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 06 Aug 1951–01 Sep 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 Sep 1951–20 Oct 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 12 Nov 1951–10 Dec 1951
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, Jul 1957–Sep 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), London Public Library and Art Museum, Canada, Sep 1957–Oct 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Oct 1957–Nov 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada, Nov 1957–Dec 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ottawa, Dec 1957–Jan 1958
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, Feb 1958–Mar 1958
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Apr 1958 -
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina College, Canada, May 1958 -
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Sep 1984–28 Oct 1984
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 15 Nov 1984–06 Jan 1985
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 24 Jan 1985–03 Mar 1985
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 26 Mar 1985–28 Apr 1985
Federation: Australian art and society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 08 Dec 2000–11 Feb 2001
Scarred and Strengthened: Australians in the Great Depression, Old Parliament House, Parkes, 17 May 2007–24 Feb 2008
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 32 publications
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Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton, Australian history and citizenship, 'Australia between the wars', pg. 104-147, South Yarra, 2000, 117 (colour illus.). source 3.17; NSW Secondary School History syllabus
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Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence (Producer), History of emotions: Annual report 2016, 2016, cover (colour illus.).
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Professor Joseph Burke, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Art in Australia', pg. 10, Sydney, 04 Feb 1954, 10.
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Michael Cannon, The human face of the Great Depression, 'How to manufacture Communists', pg. 171-182, Mornington, 1997, front cover (colour illus.), 182, back cover.
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Noel Counihan, Noel Counihan: paintings drawings prints 1943 to 1973, Melbourne, 1973, 7, 10 (illus.). cat.no. 1
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Max Dimmack, Noel Counihan, Melbourne, 1974, 74 (illus.).
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Mary Eagle, Australian Modern Painting Between the Wars 1914-1939, 'The Depression', pg. 126-137, Sydney, 1989, 137.
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Brian Finemore, Painting, 'Introduction', pg. 4-5, London, 1961, 5, 28 (illus.).
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Sasha Grishin, Australian art: a history, 'The Great Depression and the war', pg. 274-285, Carlton, 2013, 274 (colour illus, detail), 280 (colour illus.), 550, 558. plate no. 28.4
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Richard Haese, Modern Australian Art, 'Communism and culture, left-wing art in Melbourne and Sydney, 1942-46', chapter 6, New York, 1982, 166 (colour illus.), 167.
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Helen Hughs, Achieving Full Employment, South Yarra, 1994, cover (illus.).
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Tony Lenten, City art, 'Poverty and the city', Victoria, 1978, 21 (illus.), 101 (colour illus.).
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 56, 57 (colour illus.).
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John McDonald, Federation: Australian art and society 1901-2001, Canberra, 2000, 116 (colour illus.), 256.
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Janet McKenzie, Noel Counihan, Kenthurst, 1986, 11-12, 14 (colour illus.).
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Joanna Mendelssohn., The Bulletin with Newsweek, 'Work as art', Sydney, 09 Jul 1991, page unknown. Review of the exhibition 'Noel Counihan: Images of Working Life 1933-1986' touring 1991-1992.
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Charles Merewether, Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams 1931-1948, Sydney, 1984, 34, 45, 91, 153 (illus.). cat.no. 78
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Hal Missingham, Contemporary Australian painting from the National Collection, Sydney, circa 1946, 12. cat.no. 24; titled 'The start of the march'
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Barry Pearce, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Australian Art', pg. 5-26, Sydney, 1981, 6.
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Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian', pg. 13-35, Sydney, 1988, 24.
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Colin Simpson., Sun, 'Art's Angry Penguins on show', Sydney, 02 Jul 1944, unknown. Review of CAS exhibition.
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John Slater, Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945, 'The end of certainty: victims and poverty', pg. 137-156, Melbourne, 2004, xiii, 137, 139 (colour illus.), 140, 153. illus.no. 117
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Bernard Smith, Noel Counihan: Images of working life, 'Noel Counihan and the painting of manual labour', pg. 7-15, Broken Hill, 1991, 9, 10 (colour illus.), 46. cat.no. 6
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Bernard William Smith, Noel Counihan: Artist and revolutionary, Melbourne, 1993, 187-88, 504-05.
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William Splatt and Barbara Burton, 100 masterpieces of Australian painting, Adelaide, 1973, 140, 141 (colour illus.). plate no. 67
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Laurence Thomas., Contemporary Australian painters, 'Foreword', Ottawa, 1957, (illus.). cat.no. 16; illus.no. 7
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Laurie Thomas (Editor), Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Sydney, 1951, 43. cat.no. 125
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Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Present day art in Australia, Sydney, 1949, 59 (illus.).
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Donald Williams, In our own image: the story of Australian art, Sydney, 2002, 124 (colour illus.).
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Natalie Wilson, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Out of Melbourne: realisms and mythologies', pg. 163-164, Sydney, 2000, 164, 170 (colour illus.), 300.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Contemporary artists "insulted"', Sydney, 29 Jun 1944, 4. Review of CAS exhibition.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Bulletin, Sydney, 12 Jul 1944. Review of Sixth Annual CAS exhibition.
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