Untitled
John McLaughlin, Untitled, 1947, oil on Masonite, Museum Purchase: Contemporary Art Fund, © unknown, research required, 2008.64.2
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- Title
Untitled
- Artist
- Date
1947
- Medium
oil on Masonite
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
18 in x 24 in
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Contemporary Art Fund
- Accession Number
2008.64.2
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
Californian John McLaughlin"s early interest in Japanese and Chinese culture and philosophy became a driving force behind his art. A self-taught artist, he developed a unique synthesis of eastern and western thought and a technique marked by balance, harmony, and elegance. Untitled, 1947, is a transitional work for McLaughlin from his early organic abstraction toward the mature highly reductivist minimal canvases of the 1960s and 1970s.
