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John FerrenWW-1937-M069343

1937·Etched and colored plaster with intaglio·11 7/8 x 9 1/8" (30.2 x 23.2 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1937
Medium: Etched and colored plaster with intaglio
Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 9 1/8" (30.2 x 23.2 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern 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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