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Last Name McCubbin

Given Name Charles Wilson

alt. Names C. W. MC ;

Marriage Patricia Gerraty (1935 c. -1960 after) from England in 1954

Children 2: Joanna (19xx-xxxx) and Andrew (19xx-xxxx)

Year born 1930

Year died 2010

Place of death Gippsland

Father's occupation business man ? Hugh McCubbin (1890 c. -1930 after)

Relatives paintress Winifred McCubbin (1893-1967) (mother ?) ; painter Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917) (grandfather) ; Margot Edwards (19xx-xxx) (niece) ;

Education commercial art at night school and later pursued the study of the old master's technique under Murray Griffin (1xxx-xxxx) at RMIT

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for butterfly collector for the Melbourne Museum ; C. W. MC: Australian Butterflies (1968) ; Tryon Gallery in London ; teacher and mentor through the Sale Regional Gallery's annual summer school ; consultant for Melbourne Zoo's Butterfly House ;

Patronage

Collaborators botanical illustrator Beverley J. Ednie (*1931) ;

Techniques botanical and entomological ink drawing and watercolour painting ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=10625&-max=25 ;

Published sources

other Further Place of Activity: Tasmania.

Further archival sources: https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-life-lived-close-to-nature-20100903-14uhh.html and https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-06-22/artist-charles-mccubbin-dies-at-79/876460 .

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