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John FerrenWW-1937-010748
Gift of Marian Willard Johnson, 1980
Catalogue
- Year
- 1937
- Dimensions
- Framed: 16 1/8 × 13 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (41 × 34.6 × 2.9 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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- John Ferren
- Year
- 1937
- Dimensions
- Framed: 16 1/8 × 13 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (41 × 34.6 × 2.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1937-010748
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified
