Lawrence Calcagno (March 23, 1913 – April 28, 1993) was a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter.
My life has always been motivated not by intellectual or rational considerations but more by a subjective compulsion, by what I love.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.
His 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.