John Ferren lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of French-American Abstract Art and Abstract Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

John Ferren was one of the few members of the American Abstract Artists to come to artistic maturity in Paris. A native of California, in 1924 Ferren went to work for a company that produced plaster sculpture. He briefly attended art school in San Francisco. Later he served as an apprentice to a stonecutter.

John Millard Ferren (October 17, 1905 – July 1, 1970) was an American artist and educator. [1] . He was active from 1920 until 1970 in San Francisco, Paris and New York City. [2] John Ferren was born in Pendleton, Oregon on October 17, 1905, on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation. [3] .

John Ferren was an American painter whose abstractions were influenced by both Wassily Kandinsky and Zen Buddhism. Composed of floating forms within backdrops of flat color, Ferren’s paintings allude to architecture, still life, and landscape, while still remaining vague.

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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. Jan 23–Mar 25, 1951. MoMA. American Paintings from the Museum Collection. Dec 23, 1948–Mar 13, 1949. MoMA. The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture. Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946. MoMA. View all 14 exhibitions. Licensing.

American abstract painter John Ferren is the only artist who was both an inner-circle member of the Parisian avant garde of the 1930s and the group of New York School artists of the 1940s and 1950s. Ferren was born in Pendleton, Oregon, and grew up in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Nov 19, 2015 · From the 1933 canvas “Grazioso,” with its clear debt to both Picasso and Miró, through “Dance” from 1962, which could fit neatly onto the wall of a Lower East Side gallery today, Ferren’s restive...

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Dec 18, 2022 · John Ferren was an American painter whose abstractions were influenced by both Wassily Kandinsky and Zen Buddhism. View John Ferren’s 235 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.