Rolling Plains

  • Biography

    Max McCullough (1874 - unknown)

    McCullough was born at Elmwood Plantation near Little Rock, Arkansas.  After moving to Texas, she lived in Eastland (1922-35) and Dallas (1936-41), then became a resident of Laguna Beach, California.  She was director of a children's art school in Dallas.  McCullough studied at the Academie Julian, Paris, and at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.  In Paris she was a student of John LaFarge, Emile Renard, and Gabrielle Debillemont-Chardon.  In Cincinnati she was a student of Lewis Henry Meakin, Frank K. Duveneck, and Vincent Nowottny.  McCullough coauthored a book on porcelain painting.