Sir James Winter Cruthers AO (20 December 1924 – 13 October 2015) was an Australian media business executive and philanthropist.
[2] After the war he became a cadet journalist at the Daily News, and was there when the paper hired Paul Rigby as a cartoonist.
[4] His chairmanships, included the Australian Film Commission and News American Publishing Inc, where he was personal adviser to Rupert Murdoch.
[5] He supported many charitable groups, including the Lions Eye Institute (where he was a founding patron),[4] UWA's Hackett Foundation,[6] Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital,[7] the Association of the Blind (WA) Guide Dogs and the St George's Cathedral Restoration project.
[11] in June 2007, Cruthers and his wife donated the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art—more than 400 works by 155 Australian female artists including Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston and Susan Norrie—to The University of Western Australia, where it is currently housed at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.