John McLaughlin is known primarily for his hard-edged, geometric style of painting. McLaughlin was born in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1898. He was a part-time painter even while he worked as a dealer... Read full biography
John McLaughlin is known primarily for his hard-edged, geometric style of painting. McLaughlin was born in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1898. He was a part-time painter even while he worked as a dealer in Japanese prints and also as a translator during World War II in Japan, China, and Burma. He and... Read full biography
John McLaughlin is known primarily for his hard-edged, geometric style of painting. McLaughlin was born in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1898. He was a part-time painter even while he worked as a dealer in Japanese prints and also as a translator during World War II in Japan, China, and Burma. He and his wife lived in Dana Point, California where McLaughlin, a self-taught artist, started his painting career at the age of forty-eight. His experience in the Far East and his growing knowledge of... Read full biography
John McLaughlin is known primarily for his hard-edged, geometric style of painting. McLaughlin was born in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1898. He was a part-time painter even while he worked as a dealer in Japanese prints and also as a translator during World War II in Japan, China, and Burma. He and his wife lived in Dana Point, California where McLaughlin, a self-taught artist, started his painting career at the age of forty-eight. His experience in the Far East and his growing knowledge of European abstract art led him to a non-objective, quiet form of art. He concentrated on color and form to create a neutral image devoid of subject. His paintings are understated and self sufficient in that they do not have a relationship to one another,... Read full biography
John McLaughlin is known primarily for his hard-edged, geometric style of painting. McLaughlin was born in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1898. He was a part-time painter even while he worked as a dealer in Japanese prints and also as a translator during World War II in Japan, China, and Burma. He and his wife lived in Dana Point, California where McLaughlin, a self-taught artist, started his painting career at the age of forty-eight. His experience in the Far East and his growing knowledge of European abstract art led him to a non-objective, quiet form of art. He concentrated on color and form to create a neutral image devoid of subject. His paintings are understated and self sufficient in that they do not have a relationship to one another, they exist entirely alone. His work is not created for the purpose of self-expression; but rather is designed to evoke silent reflection within t... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (54)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting
2004
Hickey, Dave; Diane Moran
136 pages (color)
Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Louis Stern Fine Arts and Harold B. Nelson
46 pages (color)
Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting: 1945-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Hopkins, Henry; Michael Duncan
100 pages (color)
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Landauer, Gerdts, Trenton & Wo
226 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
On the Edge of America California Modernist Art, 1900-1950
1996
Karlstrom, Paul J (editor)
308 pages (color)
John McLaughlin: Western Modernism Eastern Thought (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Larson, Susan C. and Peter Selz
92 pages (color)
Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg
127 pages (color)
75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Laguna Art Museum
139 pages (color)
Turning the Tide Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-56 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Karlstrom, Paul/Susan Ehrlich
168 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Abstraction, Geometry, Painting Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Auping, Michael
232 pages (color)
If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings
1989
Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees
382 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present
1989
Rotzler, Willy
332 pages (color)
The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture
1988
Clarke, David J
410 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
John McLaughlin (1898-1976) Paintings of the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Carlson, Prudence
46 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
80 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984
Wilson, William
288 pages (color)
The California Connection 16 Paintings/Gifford Phillips Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Edgerton, Anne Carnegie
32 pages
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
Southern California Artists 1940-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Ball, Maudette
66 pages (color)
Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties Seventeen Artists in the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Tuchman, Maurice
162 pages (color)
Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis
111 pages
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas
88 pages (color)
Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Frederick Weisman Collection California Art (Exhibition catalog)
1978
California State U Long Beach
64 pages (color)
California 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History
1977
Los Angeles County Museum
124 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
11 Los Angeles Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Arts Council of Great Britain
64 pages (color)
John McLaughlin Recent Paintings 1970-1971
1971
Coplans, John
26 pages (color)
West Coast 1945-1969 (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Coplans, John
60 pages
Constructivism Origins and Evolution
1967
Rickey, George
305 pages
The Responsive Eye (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Seitz, William C
56 pages (color)
Art Across America (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Selz, Peter
64 pages (color)
Geometric Abstraction in America (Exhibition catalog)