aka Max Meldrum Max Meldrum once stated, "There would never be a great woman artist and there never had been. Woman had not the capacity to be alone". [!!!!! He also said women could not be expected to paint as well as men; see below.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Beckett) ....Meldrum was probably the only Australian artist to develop a fully formulated theory of painting and to practise and teach it. Small in stature, generous to a degree, he was also argumentative and occasionally waspish. Lionel Lindsay, intolerant of his fanatical dedication to his theory, dubbed Meldrum 'the mad Mullah' and Norman Lindsay depicted him as the dogmatic McQuibble in his novel A Curate in Bohemia. A pacifist during World War I, he gave influential support to Egon Kisch on his arrival in Australia in 1934 and actively defended civil liberties over the years. (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/meldrum-duncan-max-7553) Duncan Max Meldrum (3 Dec. 1875 – 6 June 1955); Scottish-born Australian painter. Known as the founder of Australian Tonalism, a representational style of painting, as well as his portrait work, for which he won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940. ...He ran the Meldrum School of Painting between 1916 and 1926. Among his students were Clarice Beckett, Colin Colahan, Auguste Cornels, Percy Leason, John Farmer, Polly Hurry, Justus Jorgensen, Percy]] and Arnold Shore, and had considerable influence on the work of his friend Alexander Colquhoun, whose son Archibald was also a Meldrum student at that time. In 1916-17 he was elected president of the Victorian Artists' Society. Meldrum influenced the young Albert Ernest Newbury. While in Paris, he befriended American painter Joseph Allworthy. ...Meldrum criticized Nora Heysen's 1938 Archibald win, saying that women could not be expected to paint as well as men. The following year, he won the Archibald prize himself. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Meldrum) undefined

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