An Idaho native, LaVigne moved to San Francisco around 1951 and became an important member of the bohemian subculture that soon flourished there. The painter among poets, he created portraits of many of its luminaries, including Philip Whalen, Kerouac and Creeley, made poet Philip Lamantia a floor-length cape to wear for a "Mad Monster Poets' Reading," and transformed poet Michael McClure into a wolf man for the cover of a recent reissue of McClure's signature 1964 collection, "Ghost Tantras." He painted Ginsberg and designed the cover of a special fine press edition of his classic "Howl" published in 1971.
LaVigne also was a model for characters in two Kerouac novels: Robert Browning in "Big Sur" and Levesque in "Desolation Angels."
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