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A pioneering Abstract Expressionist artist, Georgio Cavallon immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He studied painting at the National Academy and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts; the work of Piet Mondrian and the warm light of Cavallon’s native Northern Italy were also formative influences. Cavallon spent three years in Italy in the 1930s, and co-founded the American Abstract Artists group following his return to the United States. A consummate craftsman, he ground his own pigments and is noted for the care he gave to applying diaphanous layers of white to his canvases, obscuring and providing a field for soft-edged blocks of color. Cavallon spoke of using white to “cancel things out,” but his delicate veils often create luminous surfaces and reveal the artist’s process.

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