Max Meldrum b. 3 December 1875

Also known as Duncan Max Meldrum
  • Artist (Painter)
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the academic theories being taught and soon abandoned formal study. He nevertheless made a name for himself as a most influential artist and teacher with his controversial theory of painting as a pure science, a science of optical analysis.
Tags: Tonalism, Archibald Prize

Citations

  • 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT’.

  • McGrath, Joyce and Smith, Bernard (1986), 'Meldrum, Duncan Max’.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/meldrum-duncan-max-7553

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Perry, Peter and John (1996), 'Max Meldrum & Associates’, Castlemaine, Vic. : Castlemaine Gallery and Historical Museum.

  • Meldrum, Max (1950), 'The science of appearances as formulated and taught by Max Meldrum’, Sydney, NSW : The Shepherd Press.

  • Colahan, Colin (ed.) (1919), 'Max Meldrum: his art and views’, Melbourne, Vic. : Alexander McCubbin.

Initial data sources

  • National Gallery of Australia