18 Facts About John Ferren

John Millard Ferren was an American artist and educator.

John Ferren was active from 1920 until 1970 in San Francisco, Paris and New York City.

John Ferren was born in Pendleton, Oregon on October 17,1905, on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation.

John Ferren's parents were Verna Zay and James William Ferren, his father served in the Army and the family moved often.

John Ferren wrote many published articles on abstract art and art theory.

John Ferren's writing and artwork appears in three issues of the influential magazine; It is.

John Ferren became friendly with Picasso, who mentored him, and together they stretched the canvas for Picasso's large 1937 painting Guernica.

John Ferren briefly returned to the United States in 1930, returning to Paris soon after, where he remained until 1938.

John Ferren was the only artist who was both an inner-circle member of the Parisian avant garde of the 1930s, and the New York School abstract expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s.

John Ferren worked at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter, and learned about a nineteenth-century printing technique, the engraving plate is imprinted in wet plaster, and when dried, is then carved and painted.

John Ferren was a founding member of The Club, a group of artists who were at the heart of the emerging New York School of abstract expressionism.

John Ferren befriended Yun Gee, and through Gee, he became interested Taoism and Zen Buddhism.

John Ferren taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, starting in 1946.

John Ferren was selected as the first US State Department's Artist in Residence, and spent one year residing in Beirut, Lebanon with his family.

John Ferren married Rae John Ferren in 1949, when she was age 20 and he was age 44.

John Ferren died of cancer at the Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York in 1970.

John Ferren is buried at Green River Cemetery in East Hampton, New York.

John Ferren's work is in various public museum collections including:.