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Alan McLeod McCulloch AO (5 August 1907 – 21 December 1992) was one of Australia's foremost art critics for more than 60 years,〔critic Christopher Heathcote in ''The Age'' wrote in his obituary (22 December 1992): 'Alan McCulloch was one of the great supporters of Modern Australian art. For more than 30 years he attempted to foster advanced painting and sculpture... The contemporary art scene as we know it today would not have developed without his resolute dedication to contemporary Australian culture...His writing may not have been concerned with complex ideas but this quiet and gentle man was arguably the most influential art critic to have practised in this country.'〕 an art historian and gallery director, cartoonist,〔Lindesay, Vane. ''The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art''. 1979 Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (new edition)〕 and painter. ==Life== Born in Melbourne and brought up in Sydney, returning to Melbourne as a teenager, McCulloch initially worked in banking but enrolled in night classes at art school to pursue his developing art interest. He wrote journalism and art criticism and cartoons for Australian newspapers from 1927. In 1946 he moved to America where, in 1948, he married Ella Bromley Moscovitz (1908–1991) an Australian-born actress, businesswoman and US citizen. They remained together until her death in 1991. After a period in Europe and the UK (1946–1950) the couple returned to Australia to live in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. He was art critic for the ''Argus'' in 1944–47 and after the war became art editor of the ''Australasian Post'', to which he also contributed cartoons. In 1951 he became an associate editor for ''Meanjin'' (until 1963), and art critic on the ''Melbourne Herald'', 1952–1982. He held several solo exhibitions of his paintings and drawings in London and Melbourne. As a curator, in 1965, he assembled an exhibition of Aboriginal Bark Paintings from the Chaseling and Cahill collections from the Museum of Victoria to tour to the USA (Houston Fine Art Gallery, Texas).〔McCulloch, Alan. ''Aboriginal bark paintings from the Cahill and Chaseling collections, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia'' : (of an exhib., ) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex. (December 1965 – 30 January 1966 )〕 He was the inaugural director (1970–1992) of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, established in 1969 by the Mornington Shire Council, and it was under his leadership that the MPRG began developing a specialist collection of Australian prints and drawings. He was curator of ''The Heroic Years of Australian Art 1977–78'' touring exhibition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan McLeod McCulloch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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