John McLaughlin (American, 1898-1976), Untitled, 1963, Color Lithograph
John McLaughlin (American, 1898-1976) was a self-taught painter and a central figure in the development of Southern California hard-edge abstraction. Rather than beginning with recognizable subjects and gradually simplifying them, McLaughlin worked directly with nonobjective arrangements of rectangles, bars, and open fields, often using black, white, gray, pale blue, green, yellow, and red. His compositions give unusual weight to the empty spaces between forms, an approach closely tied to his long study of Japanese and Chinese art, particularly the spare landscapes of the Zen painter Sesshu Toyo. McLaughlin was included in the influential 1959 exhibition Four Abstract Classicists alongside Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, and Frederick Hammersley, helping define the Los Angeles hard-edge movement. His work is represented in major collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where a substantial retrospective, John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction, was organized in 2016-17.
Untitled, 1963, color lithograph on Rives BFK paper by John McLaughlin. The composition divides the sheet into two broad vertical fields, a nearly black field at left and a blue-green field at right, with narrow green bands along the upper and lower edges. The work was printed and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. This impression is inscribed in graphite on the verso "Tam Imp," signed "John McLaughlin," dated "4/30/63," and bears the Tamarind and printer blindstamps, with "784" written above the Tamarind stamp; "Tam Imp" identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Image measures approximately 18 x 19.5 inches; sheet measures approximately 18 x 21.5 inches. The sheet shows light toning and minor handling with faint surface marks; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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John McLaughlin (American, 1898-1976) was a self-taught painter and a central figure in the development of Southern California hard-edge abstraction. Rather than beginning with recognizable subjects and gradually simplifying them, McLaughlin worked directly with nonobjective arrangements of rectangles, bars, and open fields, often using black, white, gray, pale blue, green, yellow, and red. His compositions give unusual weight to the empty spaces between forms, an approach closely tied to his long study of Japanese and Chinese art, particularly the spare landscapes of the Zen painter Sesshu Toyo. McLaughlin was included in the influential 1959 exhibition Four Abstract Classicists alongside Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, and Frederick Hammersley, helping define the Los Angeles hard-edge movement. His work is represented in major collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where a substantial retrospective, John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction, was organized in 2016-17.
Untitled, 1963, color lithograph on Rives BFK paper by John McLaughlin. The composition divides the sheet into two broad vertical fields, a nearly black field at left and a blue-green field at right, with narrow green bands along the upper and lower edges. The work was printed and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. This impression is inscribed in graphite on the verso "Tam Imp," signed "John McLaughlin," dated "4/30/63," and bears the Tamarind and printer blindstamps, with "784" written above the Tamarind stamp; "Tam Imp" identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Image measures approximately 18 x 19.5 inches; sheet measures approximately 18 x 21.5 inches. The sheet shows light toning and minor handling with faint surface marks; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Dimensions
18 x 21.5 in
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