Lawrence Calcagno
1913–1993

Introduction

Lawrence Calcagno (March 23, 1913 – April 28, 1993) was a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter.

He described his artistic motivation in the following words:

Painting was the one avenue through which I could find psychical tolerance and be released. My life has always been motivated not by intellectual or rational considerations but more by a subjective compulsion, by what I love.

Wikidata identifier

Q6503905

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