JOHN McLAUGHLIN
1898 - 1976
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During the 1930s, John McLaughlin lived in Japan, absorbing language, culture and philosophies. Following his service in the Pacific campaign in World War II, he settled in Dana Point, California to focus upon painting. Working with Asian aesthetic concepts, McLaughlin’s goal was to achieve a neutral, totally abstract field in which to be absorbed. By 1950, he refined his aesthetic to pure vertical and horizontal absolute compositions.
Though he created one suite of lithographs
at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1962/63, painting was his preferred
medium . He worked in oil on board or canvas. Through
both media, he sought balance, purity and, most of all, space - limitless
space - in the community of the cosmos or within himself....Nirvana.
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Exhibitions at Tobey C. Moss Gallery:
| 2002 | Four Abstract Classicists Plus One |
| 1998 | John McLaughlin: Insider Art Paintings |
| 1994 | Abstract Classicists: John McLaughlin and Lorser Feitelson |
| 1982 | Four Abstract Classicists: Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Fred Hammersley, John McLaughlin |
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