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John FerrenWW-1932-010751

1932·Gouache on cardboard, pasted to cardboard·12 5/8 x 15 5/8 in. (32.1 x 39.7 cm)

Gift of Murray D. Garson, in memory of Margaret S. Garson, 1984

Catalogue

Year: 1932
Medium: Gouache on cardboard, pasted to cardboard
Dimensions: 12 5/8 x 15 5/8 in. (32.1 x 39.7 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: John Ferren

Artist

John Ferren

Painting

John Ferren was an American abstract painter and sculptor who worked primarily in the postwar period, developing a geometric vocabulary rooted in color relationships and spatial construction. Active from the 1930s onward, his paintings combined rigorous formal order with chromatic intensity, positioning him within the mid-century American abstraction movement. Ferren's approach emphasized the structural properties of color itself as a generative force in composition.

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