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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 - 2021) was active/lived in California.  Lawrence Ferlinghetti is known for Abstract figurative.

The following is from George Krevsky, San Francisco:

Artist: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Born: 1919 in Yonkers, New York
Primary Residence: California
Subject Matter: figurative painting
Style: Abstract Expressionist
Methods: all mediums

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in New York of an Italian-Portuguese-Sephardic immigrant family in 1919. He graduated in 1941 from the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (where he worked on the literary magazine founded by Thomas Wolfe).

During the Second World War he spent four years on U.S. Navy ships and commanded a U.S. Navy subchaser at the Normandy invasion, saw Nagasaki six weeks after the A-bomb, and after the War earned an M.A. at Columbia University and a doctorate in literature at the University of Paris. He began drawing from the model at the Academie Julien in Paris in 1948 and continued in the open studios of the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1950's, 70's and 80's.
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Facts about Lawrence Ferlinghetti

   Lawrence Ferlinghetti  Born:  1919 - Yonkers, New York
Died:   2021
Known for:  Abstract figurative

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The following is from George Krevsky, San Francisco:

Artist: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Born: 1919 in Yonkers, New York
Primary Residence: California
Subject Matter: figurative painting
Style: Abstract Expressionist
Methods: all mediums

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in New York of an Italian-Portuguese-Sephardic immigrant family in 1919. He graduated in 1941 from the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (where he worked on the literary magazine founded by Thomas Wolfe).

During the Second World War he spent four years on U.S. Navy ships and commanded a U.S. Navy subchaser at the Normandy invasion, saw Nagasaki six weeks after the A-bomb, and after the War earned an M.A. at Columbia University and a doctorate in literature at the University of Paris. He began drawing from the model at the Academie Julien in Paris in 1948 and continued in the open studios of the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1950's, 70's and 80's.

In 1953 he rented a large loft at 9 Mission Street, San Francisco, just vacated by Hassel Smith. Originally identifying with the New York painters of his generation, namely Franz Kline and Willem DeKooning, he pursued what he now considers a "farcical attempt" to paint in an Abstract Expressionist styleHaving reached an impasse, he stopped painting and did not pick up a brush again until the mid-1970's when he returned to figurative painting, sometimes very close to abstraction, and often combining the lyrical and the political.

Since then Ferlinghetti has had many one-man exhibitions in this country and abroad. His most important solo show in Europe was at the Palace of Exhibitions in Rome (1996). In the catalogue for that show, the famous Italian art critic, Achille Bonito Oliva, characterized Ferlinghetti as "godfather of the [Italian] trans-avant garde."

Lately he has been associated with European Fluxus art, with shows in Verona and Florence curated by Francesco Conz. Solo exhibitions in the United States include the shows at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York, the Molly Barnes Gallery in Santa Monica, Dominican University in San Rafael, William Turner Gallery in Venice California, Kleinert James Gallery in Woodstock New York, and the George Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2003 Ferlinghetti: Art, Marin Theater Company, Marin, CA
2002 lit.paint, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 lit.paint, Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
2001 Foyer degli Artisti, Florence, Italy
2001 William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
2000 Archivio Francesco Conz Gallery, Verona, Italy
2000 "Love in the Days of Rage", George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
1999 "The Painter's Dream", Shorenstein Company, San Francisco
1999 "New Paintings", Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 "Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Painter", San Marco Gallery, San Rafael
1998 "Pure Art Vs. Agit -Prop", George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey
1997 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
1996 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1996 Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco
1995 University of Maryland Art Gallery, MD
1995 University of Charleston, West Virginia
1994 Civic Center Gallery, Mountain View, CA
1993 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1992 Instituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco
1992 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1991 Peter Lembcke Gallery, San Francisco
1991 Kennedy Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Special Collections, University Library, UC Santa Cruz

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2001 "Play Ball!", George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
1999 "Diamonds & Dust: The Art of Baseball", George Krevsky Gallery,
San Francisco
1999 "By the Sea", George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
1999 "Writerly Art", Trenton Art Museum, New Jersey
1998 "Contemporary Bay Area Artists", George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco
1996 "Writers Who Paint", George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco
1996 "Beat Culture and the New America", M.H. de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco
1995 "Beat Culture and the New America", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1995 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco
1995 SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco
1994 "Beat Art", New York University Gallery of Art


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