Max Meldrum - Artist Info

About Max Meldrum

  • Biography

    The following information was submitted in October of 2006 by Max Leason:

    Born in Scotland in 1875, Australian artist Max Meldrum became a major influence in Australian art. A tonalist, he painted in a realist style, portraits, landscapes, and still-lives.

    Meldrum was educated at the Melbourne National Gallery School, receiving the National Gallery Scholarship prize in 1899. He also studied in France from 1900-1905, at the Academies Julian and Colarossi.

    Bibliography:
    Max Meldrum and Associates, Peter and John Perry, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 1996.

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