Max Meldrum b. 3 December 1875

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
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 with his controversial theory of painting as a pure science, a science of optical analysis.
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  • 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT’.

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