Geometric abstract art american artists

John Dwyer Mclaughlin (1898-1976)

John McLaughlin’s work fuses Zen painting, Constructivism, and hard-edged Minimalism in geometric compositions of lines, squares, and rectangles rendered in a palette of primary colors. Exploring harmonies of color, shape, and composition, McLaughlin sought to “communicate only to the extent that the painting will serve to induce or intensify the viewer’s natural desire for contemplation without the benefit of a guiding principle,” he said. His paintings can be understood as descending from the work of seminal abstractionists Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, pioneers in the exploration of the sublime potential of pure color and form. McLaughlin first studied painting in Japan while serving as an intelligence officer during World War II, and he later settled in California. His body of work served as inspiration for the artists of the California Light and Space Movement.

John McLaughlin was a self-taught American painter known for his austere geometric abstractions based in the Zen Buddhist notion of the void. Employing precisely painted rectangular and gridded forms of beige, warm black, marigold yellow, and deep indigo, McLaughlin’s works intended to provoke a meditative state. “My purpose is to achieve the totally abstract,” he once reflected. “I want to communicate only to the extent that the painting will serve to induce or intensify the viewer’s natural desire for contemplation without the benefit of a guiding principle.” Born on May 21, 1898 in Sharon, MA, McLaughlin’s parents fostered his interest in Asian art throughout his childhood. Serving in World War I as a young man, he later lived with his wife in Japan during the mid-1930s. Returning to the United States three years later, McLaughlin and his wife opened a gallery in Boston that specialized in Japanese prints. Recruited as a Japanese translator in World War II, he began producing art full time after his service ended in 1946. Influenced by the paintings of Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, as well as those of 16th-century Japanese painters, McLaughlin’s earliest mature works were abstractions. In 1952, the artist had his first solo exhibition at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles, later gaining recognition as one of the preeminent artists in California, alongside Robert Irwin and Billy Al Bengston. McLaughlin died on March 22, 1976 in Dana Point, CA. In 2016, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a long overdue retrospective of his work titled “John McLaughlin: Total Abstraction.” Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, among others.

Abstract geometric

Timeline

1898 Born in Sharon, Massachusetts, USA

1961 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

1962 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

1963 Tamarind Fellowship

1964 Visual Arts Award for individual artists by the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities

1976 Died in Dana Point, California, USA

Geometric abstraction & minimalism artist

2013 John Mclaughlin: Paintings 1947-1974, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY (solo)

2012 ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

2012 Pacific Standard Time. Kunst in Los Angeles 1950-1980, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2011 Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s – 50s, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

2010 Kissed by Angels: A Selection of Work from Southern California, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

2010 Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2010 Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2010 John McLaughlin: Hard Edge Classicist , Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2009 The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989, Solomon R.

2009 Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2009 Stripes/Solids, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2009 Exploring Black and White: The 1930’s through the 1960’s, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY

2008 Modernism and the Wichner Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2008 Síntesis – muestra colectiva, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain

2007 Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; traveled to Addison Gallery of America Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, The Unviersity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2007 John McLaughlin: The Tamarind Prints, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (solo)

2006 John McLaughlin: The Complete Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2006 Color and line; Selections from The Menil Collection, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

2006 Geometric Abstraction and Color Function: Two Generations, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY

2006 California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2006 La Dolce Vita – Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2006 Los Angeles, 1955-1985: naissance d’une capitale artistique/sous la direction de Catherine Grenier, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2005 Wilder: A tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1965-1979, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Into The Unknown – Abstraction From The Collection, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

2005 John McLaughlin, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)

2004 Specific Objects – The Minimalist Influence, MOCA, San Diego, CA

2004 Art, Artists, and the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

2004 Group Show, Western Project, Culver City, CA

2003 On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

2003 Guest Art. Das Kunsthaus mit Leihgaben zu Gast , Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland

2003 The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003 Minimalism and After II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

2002 Samadhi, The Contemplation of Space, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

2002 Flatline, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)

2001 Substitute Cities, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON

2001 A Room of Their Own From Arbus to Gober, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

1998 John McLaughlin: Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1996 John McLaughlin: Western Modernism, Eastern Thought, Laguna Art Musuem, Laguna Beach, CA; traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD and Joslyn Museum, Omaha,NE (solo)

1993 The Institute for Contemporary Art/Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1992 Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK (solo)

1991 André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1991 John McLaughlin: Collages, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)

1990 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

1990 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (solo)

1983 John McLaughlin: Paintings 1951-1966, Gatodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1982 John McLaughlin, Ulmer Museum, Stadt Ulm, West Germany

1981 John McLaughlin: Black and White, Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland

1981 John McLaughlin: Paintings, 1950-1975, Annely Judya Fine Art, London

1981 Quadrat Bottrop – Modern Gallerie, Bottrop, West Germany

1978 Quadrat Bottrop – Modern Gallerie, Bottrop, West Germany

1974 John McLaughlin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1973 John McLaughlin – A Retrospective Exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA

1971 John McLaughlin – Recent Paintings 1970-1971, University of California, Irvine

1968 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

1963 Retrospective Exhibition – John McLaughlin, Pasadena Art Museum, CA

1960 Long Beach Museum of Art, CA

1958 University of California, Riverside, CA

1956 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

Cubism geometric abstraction

2012 ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, 2012

1996 Larsen, Susan. John McLaughlin, Western Modernism, Eastern Though: Essays, Distributed Art Publishers, 1996

1993 Four Abstract Classicists, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum

1992 Paintings and Prints – 1950-1975, London, 1992

1987 Joslyn Art Museum. Paintings and Sculpture from the European and American Collections. University of Nebraska Press, Omaha, Nebraska

1981 John McLaughlin, Quadrat Bottrop – Morderne Galerie, Bottrop, 1981

1977 California – 5 Footnotes to American Art History, Los Angeles, 1977

1973 John McLaughlin Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, 1973

1970–1971 John McLaughlin Recent Paintings – 1970/1971 University of California, Irvine

1963 John McLaughlin A Retrospective Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963

Public Collections

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

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

Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

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

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

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

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Josef Albers (American/German, 1888–1976)
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Adriano Altamira (Italian, born 1947)
Robert Alvarez Rios (born 1932)
Franco Angeli (Italian, 1935–1988)
Rodolfo Aricò (Italian, 1930–2002)
Stefano Arienti (Italian, born 1961)
Edmondo Bacci (Italian, 1913–1979)
Enrico Baj (Italian, 1924–2003)
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Gianfranco Baruchello (Italian, born 1924)
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Davide Benati (Italian, born 1949)
Vasco Bendini (Italian, 1922–2015)
Giacomo Benevelli (Italian, born 1925)
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Cesare Berlingeri (Italian, born 1948)
Carlo Bernardini (Italian, born 1966)
Joseph Beuys (German, 1921–1986)
Domenico Bianchi (Italian, born 1955)
Remo Bianco (Italian, 1922–1988)
Alberto Biasi (Italian, born 1937)
Mario Bionda (Italian, 1913–1985)
Alighiero Boetti (Italian, 1940–1994)
Luigi Boille (Italian, 1926–2015)
Agostino Bonalumi (Italian, 1935–2013)
Beppe Bonetti (Italian, born 1951)
Arturo Bonfanti (Italian, 1905–1978)
Enzo Brunori (Italian, 1924–1993)
Günter Brus (Austrian, born 1938)
Antonio Bueno (Italian, 1918–1985)
Enzo Cacciola (Italian, born 1945)
Nino (Antonio Calogero) Calos (Italian, 1926–1990)
Pier Paolo Calzolari (Italian, born 1943)
Massimo Campigli (Italian, 1895–1971)
Giovanni Campus (Italian, born 1929)
Robert Capa (Hungarian, 1913–1954)
Carmelo Cappello (Italian, 1912–1996)
Arturo Carmassi (Italian, 1925–2015)
Eugenio Carmi (Italian, 1920–2016)
Federico Casati (Italian, born 1968)
Vincenzo Cecchini (born 1934)
Giuseppe Chiari (Italian, 1926–2007)
Henri Chopin (French, 1922–2008)
Christo (Bulgarian, 1935–2020)
Giorgio Ciam (Italian, 1941–1996)
Josep Ucles Cifuentes (Spanish, 1925–2013)
Marco Cingolani (Italian, born 1961)
Carlo Cioni (Italian, born 1930)
Antonio Corpora (Italian, 1909–2004)
Toni Costa (Italian, 1935–2013)
Franco Costalonga (Italian, 1933–2019)
Roberto Crippa (Italian, 1921–1972)
Carlos Cruz-Diez (Venezuelan, 1923–2019)
Dadamaino (Italian, 1935–2004)
Karl Fred Dahmen (German, 1917–1981)
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)
Sergio Dangelo (Italian, 1932–2022)
Marina Davydova (Russian, born 1951)
Lucio Del Pezzo (Italian, born 1933)
Mario Deluigi (Italian, 1901–1978)
Giuseppe Desiato (Italian, born 1935)
Pierre Dmitrienko (French, 1925–1974)
Noël Dolla (French, born 1945)
Hisao Domoto (Japanese, 1928–2013)
Piero Dorazio (Italian, 1927–2005)
Gillo Dorfles (Italian, 1910–2018)
Angelo Dozio (Italian, born 1941)
Marcello Fantoni (Italian, 1915–2011)
Agostino Ferrari (Italian, born 1938)
Tano Festa (Italian, 1938–1988)
Lucio Fontana (Argentine/Italian, 1899–1968)
Ruth Francken (American, 1924–2006)
Horacio Garcia Rossi (Argentine, 1929–2012)
Franco Garelli (Italian, 1909–1973)
Alberto Garutti (Italian, born 1948)
Luciano Gaspari (Italian, born 1913)
Winfred Gaul (German, 1928–2003)
Franco Gentilini (Italian, 1909–1981)
Quinto Ghermandi (Italian, 1916–1994)
Luigi Ghirri (Italian, 1943–1992)
Mario Giacomelli (Italian, 1925–2000)
Piero Gilardi (Italian, born 1942)
Hans Jörg Glattfelder (Swiss, born 1939)
Giorgio Griffa (Italian, born 1936)
Riccardo Guarneri (Italian, born 1933)
Elisabetta Gut (Italian)
Hans Hartung (French/German, 1904–1989)
Thomas Hoepker (German, born 1936)
Hsiao Chin (Taiwanese, born 1935)
Ralph Humphrey (American, 1932–1990)
Paolo Icaro (Italian, born 1936)
Emilio Isgrò (Italian, born 1937)
Ray Johnson (American, 1927–1995)
Joe Jones (American, 1934–1993)
Ioannis Kardamatis (Greek, b. after 1916–d. after)
Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923–2015)
Jan Knapp (born 1949)
Robert Knight
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Martin Krampen (German, born 1928)
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Edoardo Landi (Italian, born 1937)
Julio Le Parc (Argentine, born 1928)
Jean-Jacques Lebel (French, born 1936)
Felice Levini (Italian, born 1956)
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007)
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Umberto Lilloni (Italian, 1898–1980)
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Francesco Lo Savio (Italian, 1935–1963)
Richard Long (British, born 1945)
Boris Lurie (American/Russian, 1924–2008)
Urs Lüthi (Swiss, born 1947)
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Luigi Mainolfi (Italian, born 1948)
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Pompilio Mandelli (Italian, 1912–2006)
Elio Marchegiani (Italian, born 1929)
Paolo Masi (Italian, born 1933)
Vittorio Matino (Italian, born 1943)
Galliano Mazzon (Italian, 1896–1978)
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Juan Mele (Argentine, 1923–2012)
Fausto Melotti (Italian, 1901–1986)
Mario Merz (Italian, 1925–2003)
Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens (Belgian, 1903–1971)
Yves Millecamps (French, born 1930)
Aldo Mondino (Italian, 1938–2005)
Carmen Gloria Morales (Chilean, born 1942)
Marcello Morandini (Italian, born 1940)
François Morellet (French, 1926–2016)
Philippe Morisson (French, 1924–1994)
Ennio Morlotti (Italian, 1910–1992)
Ursula Mosbach (German, b. after 1922–d. after 2002)
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Otto Muehl (Austrian, 1925–2013)
Bruno Munari (Italian, 1907–1998)
Edo Murtic (Croatian, 1921–2004)
Magdalo Mussio (Italian, 1925–2003)
Gualtiero Nativi (Italian, 1921–1999)
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Tomas Rajlich (Czech, born 1940)
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