Max Meldrum
(Scotland, Australia 03 Dec 1875–06 Jun 1955)
- Title
- Portrait of John Farmer
- Year
- (1936)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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76.5 x 97.4cm stretcher; 107.0 x 127.0 x 9.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, brown oil "Meldrum". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1937
- Accession number
- 6391
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (11)
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Alex Taylor (Australia) (Author), Perils of the studio: inside the artistic affairs of bohemian Melbourne, North Melbourne, 2007, 21 (colour illus.). figure 12
Paula Dredge (Author), Margaret Sawicki (Australia) (Author), Steven Miller (Australia) (Author), Lindsay Parker (Australia, b.1939, d.2003) (Author), S.A. Parker Framing Works, Domain, 2004, 51 (illus.).
Peter Perry (Australia, b.1952) (Author), John Perry (Australia, b.1952) (Author), Max Meldrum and associates: their art, lives and influences, Victoria, 1996, 39 (illus.), 129.
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Terry Smith (Author), Australian painting 1788-1990, South Melbourne, 1991, 202 (colour illus.). illus.no. 115
Robert Haines (Australia; France, b.1910, d.2005) (Director), Paintings and drawings by Max Meldrum, Sydney, 1974. cat.no. 30
Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994) (Author), Artists by artists, Sydney, 1954, (illus.). cat.no. 50
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 146. cat.no. 468
Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994) (Author), A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Domain, 1953. cat.no. 141
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), 100 years of Australian painting, Sydney, 1948, 6. cat.no. 14
Art in Australia [series 3, no. 70] Mar 1938, Mar 1938, 63 (illus.).
'The Archibald Competition' by Basil Burdett., Art in Australia [series 3, no. 66] Feb 1937, Feb 1937, 31 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (6)
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Archibald, Wynne and Sulman (1936), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Jan 1937–15 Feb 1937.
Loan exhibition of paintings by Max Meldrum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Mar 1947–16 Apr 1947.
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948.
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953.
Artists by artists (1954), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Nov 1954–05 Dec 1954.
Paintings and drawings by Max Meldrum, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 15 May 1974–01 Jun 1974.
