Lawrence Calcagno

The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City, Taos and Honolulu. Work by Lawrence Calcagno is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art and New Mexico Museum of Art.

• Name — Lawrence Calcagno • Born — 23 March 1913 • Birthplace — San Francisco, California • Died — 28 April 1993 • Place of death — State College, Pennsylvania, US • Known for — Painting • Movement — Abstract expressionism

Lawrence Calcagno was born on March 23, 1913, in Potrero Hill, San Francisco. His parents, Vincent and Anna de Rosa Calcagno, were Italian immigrants. At age ten he moved to the family ranch-homestead in the Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County where he spent the following ten years. In 1935 he left the homestead, joined the merchant marines, and traveled all the way to Asia.

In 1941 at the beginning of World War II Calcagno joined the United States Army Air Corps, where he served for three years. During his service he was recognized as an artist. His drawing titled "Watch in the Night" won first prize in the national Army art contest in the Southwest Regional competition.

Benefiting from the G.I. Bill in 1947, Lawrence Calcagno enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco. His teachers were Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, along with instructors Edward Corbett and Richard Diebenkorn. In 1950 he left California School of Fine Arts for Europe. He went to Paris, France to study at L’Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. In 1951 he went to Florence to study the Renaissance. He enrolled at the Instituto d’Arte Statale.

• 1945: (first) The Little Gallery, New Orleans; • 1948, 54: Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco; • 1951–52: Numero Galleria d'Arte, Florence, Italy; • 1952, 55: Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France; • 1955: Galeria Clan, Madrid, Spain; • 1955, 58, 60, 62: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City; • 1956: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama; Macon Art Association, Macon, Georgia; Albright Art Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, New York; • 1957: Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru; • 1957, 62: Zuni Gallery, Buffalo, New York; • 1958: Greenwich Gallery, NYC; • 1959: Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; • 1960: Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania; New Arts Gallery, Houston; *1960, 61, 62, 64, Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts; • 1961: National Autonomous University of Mexico; McRoberts & Tunnard Gallery, London, England; • 1962: Galeriw Kobenhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark; • 1964: Osborn Gallery, NYC; • 1965: Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; • 1966: Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit; Ester–Robles Gallery, Los Angeles; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; • 1967: Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; • 1968, 70, 72: Meredith Long and Co., Houston; • 1968, 69: Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; • 1969: Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans; Radcliffe College Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; • 1970: Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York; Royal Marks Gallery, NYC; • 1973, 77: Roko Gallery, NYC; • 1973–75: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; • 1975: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona; • 1976: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (now the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House), Honolulu, Hawaii; • 1978, 2000: Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas; Fort Collins Museum of Art, Colorado; Stables Gallery, Taos, New Mexico; • 1981: Dord Fitz Gallery, December 1–15, Amarillo, Texas • 1982: Foundation Gallery, NYC; • 1987: Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC; Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York; The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii; • 1992–93: David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo; • 1999: Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe; Retrospective: • 1967: Westmoreland County Museum of Arts; • 1982–83: Mitchell Museum, circ., Mount Vernon, Illinois; • 1984: Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, Virginia; • 2000: "Journey Without End: The Life and Art of Lawrence Calcagno," Museum of Arts, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• 1949: "13th Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association," San Francisco Museum of Art, California; • 1953: "American Painters," Galerie Craven, Paris, France; • 1955, 56, 58, 63, 65, 67: Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials; • 1958: "17 Americans," U.S. Pavilion, Brussels Worlds Fair; • 1959: "9th Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; • 1960: "60 American Painters: 1960," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; *1961: "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; • 1966: "American Landscape: A Changing Frontier," National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; • 1985, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 97–98, 2002: Anita Shapolsky Gallery (formerly Arbitrage Gallery), NYC. Lawrence Calcagno died on April 28, 1993, in State College, Pennsylvania, while visiting relatives.