Max Meldrum

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Max Meldrum

Max Meldrum (1875 - 1955), Australian painter who twice won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.

Born in Edinburgh in 1875, his family emigrated to Australia in 1889. He ran the Meldrum school of painting between 1916 and 1926. Lived in France between 1926 and 1931, then returned to Australia. Opened a new school in Melbourne in Collins street

He is known for criticising Nora Heysen's 1938 Archibald prize win, saying that women could not be expected to paint as well as men.

His Archibald Prize wins:

  • 1939 - The Hon G J Bell, Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • 1940 - Dr J Forbes McKenzie
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