John McLaughlin
Born 1898, Sharon, MA
Died 1976, Los Angeles, CA
Education
1962 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, SanFrancisco, CA
1961 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
1953 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1955 Downtown Gallery, New York
1956 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1958 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside, CA
1960 Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles; University of California, Riverside, CA
1962 Recent Paintings- John McLaughlin, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Retrospective Exhibition - John McLaughlin, Pasadena Art Museum, CA
1964 K. Kazamir Gallery, Chicago, IL
1966 Eight New Paintings, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Landau-Alan Gallery, New York
1969 John McLaughlin – Retrospective Exhibition 1946-1967, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.
1971 John McLaughlin – Recent Paintings 1970-1971, University of California, Irvine
Recent Paintings by John McLaughlin, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 Paintings by John McLaughlin, Corcoran and Corcoran Ltd., Coral Gables, FL
John McLaughlin – A Retrospective Exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
1974 John McLaughlin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Recent Paintings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1975 Recent Paintings, Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
1976 Paintings 1949-1974, Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
1978 Prints and Paintings, University of California, Santa Barbara
1979 Late Work, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
John McLaughlin – Paintings 1949-1975, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
Late Work, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
Paintings 1949-1975, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1981 John McLaughlin: Black and White, Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
John McLaughlin: Paintings, 1950-1975, Annely Judya Fine Art, London
Quadrat Bottrop - Modern Gallerie, Bottrop, West Germany
Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart, West Germany
1982 John McLaughlin, Selected Paintings, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
John McLaughlin: Paintings 1951-1974, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
John McLaughlin, Ulmer Museum, Stadt Ulm, West Germany
1983 John McLaughlin: Paintings 1951-1966, Gatodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Late Work, Gatodo Gallery, Tokyo
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1986 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
John McLaughlin: Two Decades, 1950 & 1960, Washburn Gallery, New York
1987 Paintings of the Fifties, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
Paintings of the Sixties, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wolff Gallery, New York
PWM Gallery, Stamford, CT
1988 B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C.
John McLaughlin: Paintings of the Seventies, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1990 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1991 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
John McLaughlin: Collages, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
1993 The Institute for Contemporary Art/Clocktower Gallery, New York
1996 John McLaughlin: Western Modernism, Eastern Thought, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; traveled to
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD and Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
1998 John McLaughlin: Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2002 Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York
2005 John McLaughlin, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York
2006 John McLaughlin: The Complete Prints, Susan Shaheen Gallery, New York
2007 John McLaughlin: The Tamarind Prints, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2010 John McLaughlin: Hard Edged Classicist, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
1949, 1950, 1954-60
Painting and Sculpture Annual, Los Angeles County Museum
1950 California State Fair, CA
1951 Contemporary Paintings in the United States, County Museum Los Angeles, CA
1955 Art in the 20th Century, San Francisco Museum of Art; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
Third Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pacific Coast Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN
Painters of Los Angeles, The Downtown Gallery, New York
Corcoran Biennial, Washington D.C.
1956 Pacific Coast Art, Cincinnati Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis
15 American Painters, Long Beach Museum and Tour
1957 Sphere of Mondrian, Institute of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
1958 American Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1959-1960
Four Abstract Classicists, Los Angeles County Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Art Institute of
Contemporary Art, London; Queens College, Belfast, Ireland
1960-1961
Purist Painting, toured by American Federation of Art
1962 Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
Fifty California Artists, toured by Whitney Museum of American Art NYC
Artist’s Environment: West Coast, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York (toured USA)
1967 30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1969 Seven Decades, Addisson Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1970 West Coast 1945-1969, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. VA
Studio Marconi, Felix Landau Gallery, Milan, Italy June 15
1971 11 Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London (toured Britain)
1974 Geometric Abstraction, University of Nebraska, Omaha (toured U.S.A)
1975 Color as Language, International Circulating Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art
1977 Los Angeles Hard-Edge Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California: 5 Contemporary Art Galleries, Lytton Halls, Los Angeles County Museum
1979 Art Inc., American Paintings from Corporate Collections, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
(traveled)
Black and White are Colors: Paintings of the 1950s-1970s, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona
College and Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1981 Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984 A Decade if American Painting: 1960-1969, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collections
Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Daimler Chrysler, Berlin, Germany
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, Scotland
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum and Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland CA
Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY