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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

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales began in the 1870s as an aspect of the Academy of Art. Later it became known as the National Art Gallery of NSW. This name persisted beyond Federation in 1901. It was given its present name in 1958.
It remains the principal collecting and exhibiting body in NSW and is governed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act of 1980.

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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

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Max Meldrum b. 3 December 1875

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

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