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John McLaughlin (1898 Sharon, Massachusetts – 1976 Los Angeles, California) is regarded as one of the most important American artists of the mid-twentieth century, although his work was widely acknowledged only towards the end of his career and received more attention especially during the past few years. McLaughlin is the most prominent of the “Hard Edge” painters of the late 1950s, who formed a counter movement to the emotionally charged Color Field painting of Abstract Expressionism. His images are characterized by strictly geometric compositions of few color sections.
McLaughlin holds a singular position among this group of artists in that his artistic vision is grounded in Zen Buddhist philosophy. In his abstract paintings with their “neutral structure” (John McLaughlin) this influence becomes visible in the void, which viewers may fill with their individual experience of the present moment.
2012ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln.2010The New York Times, January 29, p. C25.1996Larsen, Susan. John McLaughlin, Western Modernism, Eastern Though: Essays Distributed Art Publishers, 1996.1993Four Abstract Classicists, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum.1992Paintings and Prints – 1950-1975, London, 19921987Joslyn Art Museum. Paintings and Sculpture from the European and American Collections. University of Nebraska Press, Omaha, Nebraska.1981John McLaughlin, Quadrat Bottrop – Morderne Galerie, Bottrop, 1981.1977California – 5 Footnotes to American Art History, Los Angeles, 19771973John McLaughlin Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, 1973.1970 – 1971Les Morts de Newport Beach, Editions de l’Aquarium Agnostique, Valenciennes, 1995
Baudier, Dennis and Salling Morten. Lewis Baltz. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1995
The Deaths In Newport, CD-ROM, Paradox, Rotterdam, 19951963John McLaughlin A Retrospective Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963.
Born 1898 in Sharon, Massachusetts, USA.
Died 1976 in Dana Point, California, USA.
Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Tamarind Fellowship
Visual Arts Award for individual artists, National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
John McLaughlin: Linocuts, Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street, New York, USA
John McLaughlin: Ascetic Approach, Susan Inglett, New York, USA
John McLaughlin: Constructions, Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street, New York, USA
John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
John McLaughlin. Paintings, Total Abstraction, BCAM 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
John McLaughlin, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
John McLaughlin. The Tamarind Prints, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
John McLaughlin, California Modern Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
John McLaughlin. Paintings and Prints, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
John McLaughlin. Western Modernism, Eastern Thought, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (travelled to Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland and Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska)
John McLaughlin, California Modern Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Institute for Contemporary Art/Clocktower Gallery, New York
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
John McLaughlin, PS 1 Exhibition Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York
John McLaughlin. Paintings 1951-1966, Gatodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
John McLaughlin, Ulmer Museum, Stadt Ulm, Germany
John McLaughlin. Black and White, Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
John McLaughlin. Paintings, 1950-1975, Annely Judya Fine Art, London, UK
Quadrat Bottrop – Moderne Galerie, Bottrop, Germany
John McLaughlin. Prints and Paintings, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
John McLaughlin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
John McLaughlin – A Retrospective Exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California
John McLaughlin. Recent Paintings 1970-1971, University of California, Irvine, California
John McLaughlin. Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
Retrospective Exhibition – John McLaughlin, Pasadena Art Museum, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
University of California, Riverside, California
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
Los Angeles Hard Edge from the Collection, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah, USA
A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades, Louis Stern Fine Arts, CA, USA
Color Fields, Lng Beach Museum of Art, CA, USA
Work in Progress: The Weisman Museum Collection at 30, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Malibu, CA, USA
2021
Break + Bleed, San Jose Museum of Art, CA, USA
California Dreamin’, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
LEWIS BALTZ, DON DUDLEY, ANTHONY HERNANDEZ, ROBERT IRWIN, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Global exchange: Astrazione geometrica dal 1950, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Four Abstract Classicist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Decisive Moments, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Highways and Byways. Together again, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Novecento Mai Visto. Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection: From Albers to Warhol to (now), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
The Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Abstract Classicists, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
The Postwar Era: From the Collection, 1945-1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Pacific Standard Time. Kunst in Los Angeles 1950-1980, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Experiments in Abstraction – Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Blast from the Past: 60s and 70s Geometric Abstractions, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
The Erling Neby Collection, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt – Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
Collection: The First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960 – 1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Pictures About Pictures. Discourses in Painting, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 – 1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Five Decades of Passion: The Eye of the Collector, 1968 – 1988, Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island, New York
Oranges and Sardines, Hammer Museum at University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Is It Tomorrow Yet?, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Coming of Age: American Art From 1850 – 1959, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Color and Lines: Selections from the Menil Collection, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
La Dolce Vita, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
Los Angeles – Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Into the Unknown – Abstraction from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Minimalism and After II, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Samadhi – The Contemplation of Space, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
A Room of their Own – from Arbus to Gober, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Elusive Paradise, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California
Abstraction: John Altoon, Sam Francis, Craig Kauffman, John McLaughlin and Ed Moses, Nagoya City Art Museum and Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Hara Museum ARC, Japan
Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, Scotland
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Tate Britain, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Museum and Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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