John McLaughlin
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Biography
Born 1898 in Sharon, Massachusetts, USA.
Died 1976 in Dana Point, California, USA.
Education
1962
Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1961
Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Grants and Awards
1963
Tamarind Fellowship
1946
Visual Arts Award for individual artists, National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 – 2017
John McLaughlin. Paintings: Total Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2016
John McLaughlin. Paintings, Total Abstraction, BCAM 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2014
John McLaughlin, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2007
John McLaughlin. The Tamarind Prints, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
2005
John McLaughlin, California Modern Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
1999
John McLaughlin. Paintings and Prints, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
1996
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
1993
Institute for Contemporary Art/Clocktower Gallery, New York
1990
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1993
John McLaughlin, PS 1 Exhibition Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
John McLaughlin. Paintings 1951-1966, Gatodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982
John McLaughlin, Ulmer Museum, Stadt Ulm, Germany
1981
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
1978
John McLaughlin. Prints and Paintings, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1974
John McLaughlin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1973
John McLaughlin – A Retrospective Exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California
1971
John McLaughlin. Recent Paintings 1970-1971, University of California, Irvine, California
1968
John McLaughlin. Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
1963
Retrospective Exhibition - John McLaughlin, Pasadena Art Museum, California
1960
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
1958
University of California, Riverside, California
1956
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
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
2018
California Dreamin', Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2016
LEWIS BALTZ, DON DUDLEY, ANTHONY HERNANDEZ, ROBERT IRWIN, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2015
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2014
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
2013
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
2012
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
2011
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
2010
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
2009
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
2008 – 2009
Oranges and Sardines, Hammer Museum at University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2008
Is It Tomorrow Yet?, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Coming of Age: American Art From 1850 - 1959, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2007
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2006
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
2005
Into the Unknown - Abstraction from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2003
Minimalism and After II, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2002
Samadhi - The Contemplation of Space, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2001
A Room of their Own - from Arbus to Gober, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2000 – 2001
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1997
Elusive Paradise, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California
1990
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
Public Collections
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