No. 18
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 152.4 × 121.92 cm (60 × 48 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.126
Art Historical Context
John D. McLaughlin'sNo. 18* (1966), an oil on canvas measuring 60 × 48 inches, exemplifies the artist's mastery of minimalist abstraction. Housed in the National Gallery of Art as part of the Corcor Collection—generously gifted by the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of—this painting belongs to McLaughlin's signature series of numbered works, where simplicity reigns supreme. Active in Los Angeles during the post-World War II era, McLaughlin pioneered-edge painting, influenced by Japanese art and Zen principles of balance and emptiness. His technique involves impeccably crisp edges an...