Noel Counihan

1913 - 1986

"At age 16 Counihan joined the evening classes at the National Gallery of Victoria’s drawing school. He became associated with the left-wing `painters, writers, journalists, musicians, teachers, medical students and doctors’ who met in the workshop of William Dolphin, a talented stringed-instrument craftsman; the group included Herbert McClintock, Judah Waten, Roy Dalgarno and Brian Fitzpatrick. Counihan later described the circle as `the final expression of old Melbourne’s bohemia’..."

Extract: Bernard Smith, 'Counihan, Noel Jack (1913–1986)', Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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