support in the 1970s and 1980s. His 1973 posthumous portrait of Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith – who had taught Counihan at Caulfield Grammar and, as well, had encouraged his artistic endeavours whilst he was there – largely painted from memory, and commissioned by the Caulfield Grammarians' Association, is on permanent display within the school's "Cripps Centre" on its Caulfield Campus. In 1979, Counihan contributed the entry on footballer Roy Cazaly to Volume 7 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Death On 5 July 1986, Counihan died in Melbourne aged 72. Legacy The Counihan Gallery, managed by City of Moreland Council, is named in his honour. To mark its tenth anniversary, Edwina Bartlem curated an exhibition in which contemporary artists created works inspired by the art and ideas of Counihan. The artists included George Gittoes and Angela Cavalieri. A short distance away from the Gallery, outside the Brunswick Mechanics Institute on Sydney Road, a Free Speech memorial has been built by artist Simon Perry to commemorate the free speech fights by the unemployed in 1933 and Noel Counihan's part in them. Selected works The Cough… stone dust (1947) A Metal Pourer (1948) Eureka 1854 -1954 linocuts (1954) On Parliament Steps (1955) Sunset Dance (1968) Image of Lear lithographs (1977) Face Im (1978) At the Start of the March 1932 (1944) See also List of Caulfield Grammar School people References Further reading Noel Counihan: artist and revolutionary, Bernard William Smith, 1993 edn, Oxford University Press (Melbourne, New York) Noel Counihan prints 1931-1981: A catalogue raisonné by Robert Smith, 1981, Hale & Iremonger (Sydney) Counihan Connection directed by Catherine Gough-Brady, DVD, 2010, Snodger Media External links Noel Counihan's works at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Noel Counihan's works at the National Gallery of Victoria 1913 births 1986 deaths Australian atheists Artists from Melbourne Social realist artists People educated at Caulfield Grammar School Australian printmakers 20th-century Australian painters Communist Party of Australia members People from Albert Park, Victoria