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
