Laughlin Phillips [SEP] mother
co-founded a local magazine.
Early life.
Laughlin Phillips, nicknamed Loc, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1924, the son of Duncan Phillips, an art collector and critic, and Marjorie Acker Phillips, a painter. He had one sibling, Mary Marjorie, born in 1922, who contracted encephalitis at a young age and was institutionalized. According to Phillips, "she was severely brain damaged and never got beyond being four years old." Phillips was named after his great-grandfather, James
Duncan Phillips (art collector)
Duncan Phillips (1886–1966) was a Washington, D.C., based art collector and critic who played a seminal role in introducing modern art to America. The grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, Phillips was born in Pittsburgh and moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in 1895.
Art collector and critic.
Phillips, along with his mother, established the precursor of "The Phillips Collection", The Phillips Memorial