13 Facts About Lawrence Calcagno

Lawrence Calcagno was a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter.

Lawrence Calcagno described his artistic motivation in the following words:.

Lawrence Calcagno was born on March 23,1913, in Potrero Hill, San Francisco.

In 1941 at the beginning of World War II Calcagno joined the United States Army Air Corps, where he served for three years.

Lawrence Calcagno's drawing titled "Watch in the Night" won first prize in the national Army art contest in the Southwest Regional competition.

Bill in 1947, Lawrence Calcagno enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.

Lawrence Calcagno's teachers were Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, along with instructors Edward Corbett and Richard Diebenkorn.

Lawrence Calcagno went to Paris, France to study at L'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.

In 1956 Lawrence Calcagno accepted the position of assistant professor in the art department at the Albright Art School in the University at Buffalo, New York where he stayed until 1958.

Lawrence Calcagno went on to teach from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

In 1965 Lawrence Calcagno became Andrew Mellon Professor in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, where he stayed until 1968.

Lawrence Calcagno was a fellow at the MacDowell and Yaddo artist colonies in 1960s.

Lawrence Calcagno died on April 28,1993, in State College, Pennsylvania, while visiting relatives.