Calabi Gallery

Featuring an Eclectic Array of Primarily 20th Century Artwork

Gruppo di Quattro

San Francisco Italian American artists Elio Benvenuto, Lydia Macchiarini Benvenuto, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Sam Provenzano were all Modernists in the second half of the 20th century, each with their own distinct styles. Pivotal figures of their time, these artists all played an important part in the foundation and blossoming of the arts in Post War […]

New Show: Bay Area Figurative Expressionism of the 20th Century

Nocturne #2 by Hassel Smith, 1946, Oil on Canvas, 42 x 40 BAY AREA FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM of the 20th CENTURY Our new show is an exploration of modernistic figurative art in the era of Abstract Expressionism. Some of these artists moved back and forth between figuration and abstraction and others were strictly figurative, although generally […]