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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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