Lawrence Calcagno

Place: San Francisco

Born: 1913

Death: 1993

Biography:

Lawrence Calcagno was born in San Francisco in 1913. He was a renowned painter most closely associated with the San Francisco School of abstract expressionism. Calcagno was a lifelong traveler. Shortly after serving in World War II, he enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where he studied under Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. He later taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of Pennsylvania. Calcagno's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.