Biografie von Donald Shaw MACLAUGHLAN (1876-1938)

Birth place: Charlottetown, Canada

Death place: Marrakesh, Morocco

Addresses: Boston, c.1890s; later, NYC

Profession: Etcher, painter

Studied: Boston; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gérôme and J.P. Laurens

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1893 (as Shaw McLaughlaw); PAFA Ann., 1902-03; SAE, 1932 (prize); Kennedy Gal., NYC, 1930s; Harbor Gal, NYC, 1986 (retrospective); AIC

Member: ANA 1935; SAE.

Work: AIC

Comments: Began making etchings in 1899 and dedicated himself to this medium until his death. Most of his subjects are landscapes, village and city scenes in France, Italy, Germany, and England. Produced in small editions, his etchings are influenced by Whistler, Lepère, and Haden. In 1931, he produced a suite of twelve etchings of Chicago.

Sources: WW38; exh. cat., Harbor Gal, NYC (1986); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 364, 371 (erroneously as Shaw McLaughlaw); Falk, Exh. Record Series.