William McCullough Bio

{ William McCullough Bio }

William McCullough was born in 1948 and is a native of South Carolina. In 1968, he left South Carolina for the National Academy of Art and Design in New York City. He spent four years figure drawing and painting at the National Academy of Design. He studied under acclaimed realist painters Eric Eisenberger and Daniel Greene. During his time in the northeast he also had the opportunity to apprentice with Robert Brackman and John Koch.

In the early seventies he married and moved to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina where he developed his painterly style of landscape and still-life. In 1978, he moved his family home to Kingstree, South Carolina, where a new landscape awaited. Lured by the Low Country of South Carolina, he moved to Charleston in 1989. While in Charleston, McCullough taught painting at the Gibbes Museum Studio School, and earned national recognition for his painting.

William McCullough is an elected member of the Salmagundi Club, the oldest society of professional artists in America. He has won many awards including Best in Show and Purchase Award at the Spartanburg Regional Art Show, Honorable Mention at the Salmagundi Club juried show, First Place at the Pee Dee Regional and First Prize at the C&S Bank Annual Exhibit. McCullough has painted numerous distinguished portraits from the CEO of the Roper Hospital of Charleston, to pro-golfer Tom Watson and the children of media mogul Ted Turner.

Realistic portraiture and poignant landscapes became his trademark, as well as skillfully executed still-lifes. McCullough can be found painting at his studio at 53 Cannon Street Charleston, SC, or at his family farm, or his home in the village of Pougnadoresse, France.

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Education:

Charleston Southern University, Charleston, SC
Class monitor Mystic Art School, Robert Brachman, instructor, Mystic, CT
National Academy of Design, NY, NY
Art Students League, NY, NY
Independent study with noted painters Robert Brachman and John Koch

Teaching Experience:

Arts Director, Tryon Center for Fine Arts, Tryon, NC
Oil painting instructor, Gibbes Museum Studio School, Charleston, SC
Numerous other visiting instructor positions and painting workshops in the American South, Southwest, and Europe

Publications:

American Artist Magazine (Painting the Self-Portrait)
Palette Talk Magazine
Hemispheres (United Airlines In-Flight Magazine)
Legends
Carolina Family

Collections:

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, La
The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston SC
The Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Georgetown Museum
Erskine College
The Citadel
St. Andrews Society, NY, NY
Hibernian Society, Charleston, SC
Cryogenics Corp.
Orient Express Hotels International
Kiawah Resorts International
Medical University, Charleston, SC
Roper Hospital, Charleston, SC
First Charter Bank, Greenville, SC

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