File:John McLaughlin, hard-edge painter, 1963.jpg

John McLaughlin, California hard-edge painter, May-June 1963; published in Archives of American Art Journal v. 17, no. 1, p. 29

Smithsonian American Art Museum

22:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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