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Catalogue
- Year
- 1942
- Medium
- Woven wool
- Dimensions
- 9' x 6' 7" (274.3 x 200.7 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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- John Ferren
- Year
- 1942
- Medium
- Woven wool
- Dimensions
- 9' x 6' 7" (274.3 x 200.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1942-M069646
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Status
- verified
