Biografie von Giorgio CAVALLON (1904-1989)

Birth place: Sorio, Italy

Addresses: Mass. (immigrated 1920); NYC (1926-on); summers in Provincetown, MA (1927-on)

Profession: Abstract painter

Studied: NAD, 1926; Tiffany Fndn. fellowship, 1929; Charles Hawthorne at Provincetown; Hans Hofmann.

Exhibited: S.Indp.A., 1936, 1938; Am. Abstract Artists, 1937, 1957; Charles Egan Gal., NYC, 1946-on; Riverside Mus.; WFNY, 1939; AIC; PAFA, 1966; Yale Univ Art Gal, 1967; Large Scale American Paintings," Jewish Mus, NYC, 1967; "Painting as Painting," Art Mus, Univ Tex, Austin, 1968; "The 1930's, Painting & Sculpture in America", WMAA, 1968; "The New American Painting & Sculpture," MoMA, 1969; Nat Inst Arts & Lett, 1970 (pntg award), New Eng Art/Painting & Sculpture Invitational Show, 1971 (pntg award); A.M. Sachs Gal, NYC, 1970s. Other awards: Guggenheim fellow, 1966."

Member: Am. Abstract Artists.

Work: Guggenheim Mus, NYC; MoMA; WMAA; Michener Collection, Univ Tex, Austin; Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, NYC

Comments: Abstract artist, who in 1935 he broke from representational art and alligned himself with the American Abstract Artists group. He worked in a pure geometric style until after 1950, when his work became more gestural, while still retaining some geometric properties. Teaching: Univ NC, Greensboro, 1964; Yale Univ, 1966-67; Columbia Univ, 1969.

Sources: WW73; WW40; Frank O'Hara, Cavallon Paints a Picture," Art News, (Dec., 1958); John Sedgwick, Discovering Modern Art (Random House, 1966); Barbara Rose, American Art Since 1900 (Praeger, 1967); Provincetown Painters, 225; American Abstract Art, 179; Baigell, Dictionary