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Details
- Date
- 1948
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph from stone, black ink on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 23/100
- Dimensions
- 42.3 x 25.4 cm image (irreg.); 54.8 x 43.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Counihan". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1948
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8147.4
- Copyright
- © Estate of Noel Counihan/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Noel Counihan
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About
Noel Counihan was born in Melbourne, and became a committed social realist painter, newspaper caricaturist and printmaker. He enrolled at the National Gallery School, Melbourne in October 1929, studying drawing under Charles Wheeler. He made his first prints (linocuts) with tools supplied by Eric Thake which were printed by his friend James Flett in 1931, the same year he joined the Young Communist League and became actively involved in the left-wing political movement.
Thought to be one of his first lithographs, this print is number four in a folio of six lithographs published by Counihan in 1948. The images were drawn on stone at the home of Alexander Rembrandt (Rem) McClintock at Kew, Melbourne, who printed them. The cover of the portfolio had an additional lithograph A metal pourer, printed from zinc. Some were printed on Worthy Signature laid paper, but the artist had difficulties with this, and made the rest of the edition on commercial lithographic printing paper - the number of each are unknown. There were a number of related lithographs produced that were not included in the final folio of six. In 1977 the artist noted that it was a comment on the 'new look' in women's fashion. Other prints in the set were based on a visit to Ruwolt's foundries in Richmond, and portraits of his mother and son.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, , 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no: 13b
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 79 (illus.). cat.no. 66
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