Alan McLeod McCulloch b. 1907

Also known as Alan McCulloch
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator) , (Painter)
Late 20th century Melbourne cartoonist, painter, writer, art critic, art historian and gallery director. Compiled several editions of his Encyclopedia of Australian Art.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Alan McLeod McCulloch
Also known as Alan McCulloch
Birth date
1907
Death date
1992
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Other Occupation
  • Gallery director
  • Art historian
  • Art critic
  • Writer
Active Period
  • c.1927- c.1992
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, painter, writer, art critic, art historian and gallery director. His cartooning expertise came from a study of the Bulletin , Simplissimus and Jugend in the Melbourne Public Library, plus some help from Will Dyson . He contributed drawings, as well as journalism and art criticism, to Australian newspapers from 1927 and wrote and illustrated a book of jingles, So This Was The Spot (Melbourne, 1934). He was art critic for the Argus in 1944-47 and after the war became art editor of the Australasian Post , to which he also contributed cartoons, e.g. an uncaptioned one showing two women with babies in prams riding on the back of a crowded tram, 1946 (ill. Lindesay 1979, 272). He apparently used cartoons and illustrations by several of the German ' Dunera boys’ in the Post c.1945-46, including Frederick Schonbach, Erwin Fabian and Klaus Friedeberger, as well as local artists like Albert Tucker .

From 1951 to 1981 McCulloch was art critic on the Melbourne Herald . He was also associate editor (art) for Meanjin in 1951-63. He published several authoritative books on Australian art, especially The Encyclopedia of Australian Art (1st edn 1968). Continued after his death by his daughter Susan McCulloch Uhlin, it remains the standard general reference for Australian art from colonial times to the present day.

Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Will Dyson
1880
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Erwin Fabian
1915
Artist (Sculptor), Designer (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Printmaker), Designer (Graphic Designer)
associate of
Klaus Friedeberger
1922
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Albert Tucker
1914
Artist (Painter), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Ceramist)
parent of
Susan McCulloch Uhlin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
The Dunera Boys
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Douglas Green
1921
Artist (Painter)
sibling of
Wilfred Arthur McCulloch
1910
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Ada Plante
1875
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Frederick Schonbach
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Collections
Citations:
  • Lindesay, Vane, (1979), The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art, (Place: Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (new edition))
  • McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan, (1994), Encyclopedia of Australian art, (Place: St Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition))