Untitled #8
<p>John Ferren, <em>Untitled #8</em>, 1938. Pastel on paper, sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 5/8 in. (50.2 × 65.1 cm) Mount (board): 24 15/16 × 31 1/4 × 1/8 in. (63.3 × 79.4 × 0.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 87.27</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1938
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 5/8 in. (50.2 × 65.1 cm) Mount (board): 24 15/16 × 31 1/4 × 1/8 in. (63.3 × 79.4 × 0.3 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- John Ferren
Artist
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
- 1938
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 5/8 in. (50.2 × 65.1 cm) Mount (board): 24 15/16 × 31 1/4 × 1/8 in. (63.3 × 79.4 × 0.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1938-162857
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified