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Born in Massachusetts at the turn of the century, John McLaughlin did not become a lifelong interest in art which, in addition to other ways, had manifested itself earlier in his ownership of an art shop and in study and research in Orient over an extended period. 

He was given his first one-man show in 1952 at the Landau Gallery, Los Angeles. Since then his work has been in many important West Coast exhibitions and, more recently, in others of national and international character, among them the (technical name of the United Nations show), the (ditto for the Smithsonian setup) and (again for the Sao Paulo do).

Self-taught, Mclaughlin reflects in his present work the result of a gradual evolution, a personal reaching out, a professional departure from his earlier concepts and techniques. His approach to painting has been influenced greatly by the skill and simplicity of expression evidenced by the greatest of Japanese art which he so much admires. Coupled with this, arrestingly, he has found in Mondrian qualities that he considers helpful in the development of the highly personal idiom which is his own, one that strives for a continuing broader concept under the discipline mandatory for greatest possible refinement of expression.

Honest, fellows, this son of a bitch is really a hell of a painter. Ah so, deska!

LLR