Max Meldrum

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Duncan Max Meldrum (3 December 1875 in Edinburgh, Scotland - 6 June 1955 in Kew, Australia) was a painter who won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.

His family emigrated to Australia in 1889. He ran the Meldrum School of painting between 1916 and 1926. While living in France, he married Jeanne Eugenie Nitsch, a singer with the Opéra-Comique. Meldrum and his wife returned to Australia in 1931.

He criticized Nora Heysen's 1938 Archibald win, saying that women could not be expected to paint as well as men.

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Awards
Preceded by
Nora Heysen		 Archibald Prize
1939
for The Hon. G. J. Bell, Speaker, House of Representatives
1940
for Dr. J. Forbes McKenzie		 Succeeded by
William Dargie