Born in Sharon, MA, 1898
Died in Dana Point, CA, 1976
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN was an American artist born in Sharon, Massachusetts 1898 and died in Dana Point, California 1976. An entirely self-taught painter, McLaughlin’s first solo exhibition took place at the Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1952 and was followed by an exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1956. Solo museum exhibitions include John McLaughlin: Western Modernism, Eastern Thought, Laguna Art Museum and The Prints of John McLaughlin: Site of Contemplation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He was recently the subject of a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction, November 13, 2016 – April 16, 2017. Selected public collections include Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York among others.