Business correspondence and papers, 1940s-1987

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

Chiefly comprising financial records and correspondence with galleries and dealers, this series also contains a detailed listing of sales of Counihan's artworks in the period 1959 to 1984. Separate files of correspondence record Counihan's involvement in Council of Adult Education classes, which he tutored in the early 1960s, and refer to the entry he prepared on footballer Roy Cazaly for the Australian dictionary of biography. Other folders document liaison with the Painters and Sculptors Association of Australia, and contact with producers of the film 'Painting the Town', a documentary about social-realist artists of the 1930s and 1940s.

Other correspondence with gallery directors and owners is interfiled in Series 1.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In addition to the large body of papers amassed by Noel Counihan during his lifetime, his widow Pat continued to maintain records of exhibitions, books, correspondence and articles concerning her husband's art and career after his death in 1986. The resultant collection, which bears her numerous annotations, was extensively drawn upon by Bernard Smith for his biography Noel Counihan : artist and revolutionary (1993). Following publication of his study, Smith helped coordinate the transfer of the Counihan Papers to the Library, which were received in a single consignment in 1996.

Names:

Noel Counihan

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