Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 1919-2021
Krevsky Fine Art mourns the loss of our friend and cultural icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Known by most as a renowned poet, a founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers and a liberal political guidepost, his presence in the Bay Area will be missed. It is not as well known that Lawrence was also a visual artist who wove his political and poetic themes into many spectacular and moving paintings and drawings. Krevsky Fine Art is honored to have shown Lawrence’s artwork in many exhibitions over the years and his friendship will forever be treasured.
BORN 1919 Yonkers, New York
EDUCATION
1949 Doctorat de L’Université, Sorbonne, Paris
1946 MA, Columbia University, New York
1941 BA, University of North Carolina, NC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2019 “100 years Without a Net” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: An American Icon” Elizabethtown College, PA
2017 “A Life: Lawrence Ferlinghetti” at the Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
2016 “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Love & War”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 “Legends of the Bay Area: Lawrence Ferlinghetti”, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA
2013 “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Future Woman”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Sea within Us”, Villanova di Guidonia, Italy
2012 “Cross-Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti”, Sonoma Valley Museum, Sonoma, CA
2010 “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 60 Anni di Pittura, 60 Years of Painting” Foyer del Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria, Italy & Museo di Roma in
Trastevere, Rome, Italy
2009 “Evolution of a Painter,” George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Drawings From Life,” Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Lyric Escape,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2008 “Freedom of Art Celebration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Friends”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Paintings and Poems,” Gallery of Art Karlovy Vary, Prague
2006 “Word Play,” George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 “Crossing Boundaries: Visual Art by Writers”, Hamilton Club Gallery, New Jersey
2005 “Il Verbo Fluxare” (The verb to Flux), Zero Garvita, Verona, Italy
2005 “The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti”, Brentwood Business & Technology Center, Brentwood, CA
2005 “Star Art 1”, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2005 “A Coney Island of the Mind – Works on paper by Lawrence Ferlinghetti”, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 “The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2004 “Life Studies, Life Stories”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Zen and Modern Art: Echoes of Buddhism in Western Painting and Prints”, California State University Art Gallery, Hayward, CA
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, La Spezia, 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, CA
1999 “The Painter’s Dream”, Shorenstein Company, San Francisco, CA
1999 “New Paintings”, Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Painter”, San Marco Gallery, San Rafael, CA
1998 “Pure Art Vs. Agit -Prop”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey
1997 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1996 Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
1995 University of Maryland Art Gallery, MD
1995 University of Charleston, 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, CA
1992 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1991 Peter Lembcke Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Kennedy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Special Collections, University Library, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2017 “North Beach and Beyond”, Gallery Rockinghorse, San Francisco, CA
2012 “The Painted Word”, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 “Summer Reading”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 “The Writer’s Brush, Visual Art by Writers,” Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2007 “Art Exhibit 2007”, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 “Crossing Boundaries: Visual Art by Writers”, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
2005 “Contemporary Gallery Artists”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004-05 “Poetry and its Arts Bay Area Interactions”, Poetry Center, San Francisco, CA
2001 “Play Ball!” George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Diamonds & Dust: The Art of Baseball”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “By the Sea”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Writerly Art”, Trenton Art Museum, New Jersey
1998 “Contemporary Bay Area Artists”, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Writers Who Paint”, George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Beat Culture and the New America”, M.H. de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1995 “Beat Culture and the New America”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1995 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Beat Art”, New York University Gallery of Art, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Rene & Veronica Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Francesco Conz Archive, Verona, Italy
Trenton City Museum of Art, New Jersey
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (selected)
Molly Barnes, Santa Monica, CA
Dr. Edward Bate, San Francisco, CA
Martin Brest, Los Angeles, CA
Samuel G. Candler, Atlanta, GA
Don Freidman, South Orange, NJ
Deborah Gardner, Winter Park, FL
Barry Heisler, San Mateo, CA
Max Isaacman, San Francisco, CA
Suzanne & Joseph K. Jachinowski, San Francisco, CA
Francis & Niloofar Janssens, Geneva, Switzerland
Baird Jones, New York, NY
Rose & Phillip Kaufman, San Francisco, CA
Richard Nagler, Piedmont, CA
Holly Near, San Francisco, CA
James Rigler, Sausalito, CA
John Rosenbloom, Rockford, IL
Ruth & Marvin Sackner, Miami Beach, FL
Kim Steele, San Francisco, CA
Thomas Schwarz, New York, NY
Chris Vroom, San Francisco, CA
Malcolm Whyte, Mill Valley, CA
Brigitta & Martin Wolman, San Francisco, CA