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John McLaughlin
#51974

Not on view
Abstract painting with two vertical black rectangles symmetrically placed on a white ground, hard-edged and flat

John McLaughlin, #5, 1974, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with matching funds of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Modern and Contemporary Art Council, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
John McLaughlin
United States, 1898-1976
Title
#5
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1974
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
47 7/8 × 60 × 1 3/8 in. (121.6 × 152.4 × 3.49 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with matching funds of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Modern and Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.74.81
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • A Focus on California: Selections from the Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.

  • Barron, Stephanie and Lauren Bergman, eds. John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016.

Copyright
© Estate of John McLaughlin

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