Discipline: Visual Art

Lawrence Calcagno

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976
San Francisco-born artist Lawrence Calcagno (1913–1993) spent the first part of his life on a ranch near Big Sur, CA, teaching himself to paint from his own observations of the California landscape. Calcagno remained largely self-taught until after World War II, when he began to study painting under the G.I. Bill with the artist Clyfford Still, whose saturated palette and thick-textured linear style influenced Calcagno’s work throughout his career. He also studied at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, 1950-1951 and Istituto d'Arte Statale, Florence, 1951-1952. He taught at New York University from 1960-1961 and Carnegie Mellon University from 1965-1968. He held solo exhibitions at galleries including the Little Gallery in New Orleans, Lucien Labaudt Gallery in San Francisco, Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris, Martha Jackson in New York, Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, and at the Smithsonian Institution. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Oakland Museum, and elsewhere.

Studios

Eastman

Lawrence Calcagno worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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