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Calcagno, Lawrence

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Calcagno Lawrence - Sun Forest 1948 unframed Sun Forest 1948 Oil on canvas 32 x 22 inches Signed & dated: verso
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Constellation-of-the-Inner-Eye-No38-1977-78-unframed Constellation of the Inner Eye 1977-78 Mixed media on paper 22 x 27 ¾ inches Signed: lower right Titled & dated: lower left
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Calcagno-Lawrence----Pacifica-II Pacifica II 1971 Oil on canvas 37 x 42 inches Signed, titled & dated: verso
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Timeless-Landscape-in-Red Timeless Landscape with Red Oil on canvas Panel A: 48 x 100 inches Panel B: 12 x 100 inches
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Calcagno-Lawrence----Untitled-I-1962-unframed-edit Untitled No. 1 1962 Oil and Crayon on canvas 19 15/16 x 14 15/16 inches
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Untitled-II-1962-unframed Untitled No. 2 1962 Oil and crayon on canvas 19 15/16 x 14 7/8 inches
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Calcagno Lawrence - Untitled Landscape 1983 unframed edit Untitled-Landscape 1983 Acrylic on canvas 38 x 40 inches Signed: verso
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Summer-Ritual-II---edit Summer Ritual II 1986 Acrylic on rag paper 22 x 30 inches Signed: lower right
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Taos-IV-unframed Taos IV 1972 Oil on canvas 28 x 40 inches Signed & dated: verso
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Earth-legend-unframed Earth Legend Acrylic on canvas 28 x 40 inches Signed: verso
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Semaphores Semaphores 1948 Oil on canvas 40 x 32 inches Signed & dated: lower left
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Sunbands-No1-1968-unframed Sunbands No. 1 1968 Acrylic on paper 20 x 30 inches Signed & dated: lower right
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Dark-Sunbands-1968-unframed Dark Sunbands 1968 Mixed media on paper 16 x 28 inches Signed: lower right
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Sun-Painting-1979-edit Sun Painting 1979 Acrylic and oil on board 18 x 24 inches Signed, titled, & dated: verso
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Calcagno-Lawrence---Fog-Bank-1964-unframed-edit Fog Bank 1964 Acrylic on board 12 x 20 inches Signed and dated: verso
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Calcagno Lawrence - Sun Forest 1948 unframed
Calcagno-Lawrence---Constellation-of-the-Inner-Eye-No38-1977-78-unframed
Calcagno-Lawrence----Pacifica-II
Calcagno-Lawrence---Timeless-Landscape-in-Red
Calcagno-Lawrence----Untitled-I-1962-unframed-edit
Calcagno-Lawrence---Untitled-II-1962-unframed
Calcagno Lawrence - Untitled Landscape 1983 unframed edit
Calcagno-Lawrence---Summer-Ritual-II---edit
Calcagno-Lawrence---Taos-IV-unframed
Calcagno-Lawrence---Earth-legend-unframed
Calcagno-Lawrence---Semaphores
Calcagno-Lawrence---Sunbands-No1-1968-unframed
Calcagno-Lawrence---Dark-Sunbands-1968-unframed
Calcagno-Lawrence---Sun-Painting-1979-edit
Calcagno-Lawrence---Fog-Bank-1964-unframed-edit
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Lawrence Calcagno was born in San Francisco in 1913 and grew up on his father’s ranch near Big Sur in a remote part of California. During his formative years he was isolated from society and the conventional experiences that mold the values and images of an individual’s world.

He began to draw at an early age, learning from nature and developing the strong empathy and awareness of its forces that marked his later work. He was self-taught until after World War II when he studied painting under the G.I. Bill in San Francisco with Clyfford Still, and in Paris and Florence. He soon developed a personal imagery of abstract metaphors of nature.

Calcagno began showing in Paris at the Facchetti Gallery in 1952. He met Martha Jackson in 1953, and the next year participated in a show at her legendary gallery in New York. During that spring Martha Jackson visited Paris where Calcagno introduced her to the painters John Hultberg, Sam Francis and others whose work she later collected and exhibited.

When Calcagno returned to New York from five years in Europe, he had his first one-man show at the Martha Jackson Gallery. He visited several universities as artist-in-residence–the University of Alabama, the Albright School of the University of Buffalo, and the University of Illinois.

During 1959-60, Calcagno taught at New York University and accompanied one-man exhibitions of his work to Lima, Peru, Mexico City, London, and Copenhagen. In 1965 he was awarded a Ford Foundation grant and was named to the visiting Andrew Mellon Chair of Painting at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was visiting artist-in-residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 1968-69. He was awarded fellowships by the Yaddo Foundation in Saratoga Springs, New York; the Macdowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; and the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.

The Smithsonian circulated an exhibition of Calcagno’s works on paper during 1973-75. In 1983, the Mitchell Museum in Mount Vernon, Illinois, organized a touring retrospective exhibition of his work that traveled to ten regional museums for two years. During 1987, one-man exhibitions of his work were shown at the Harwood Foundation Museum in Taos, New Mexico; and at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City.

He was awarded a USIA – USSR Cultural Exchange grant in 1988 and traveled and lectured in Russia. The National Endowment for the Arts honored Calcagno with a major painting grant in 1989.

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