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...John M. Ferren '59, Kenneth E. McWilliams '58, James Marles '59, and John H. Johntz '59 comprised the first place team in a tournament held at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, N.H. In an M.I.T. debate, Frederick J. Marker '58, Benjamin I. Cohen '58, Arthur W. Todd '58, and James H. McConomy '59 composed the team that tied for first place...
...Blue, by John Ferren, 50, was bought by the University of Nebraska Art Galleries for $600. Says Director Norman Geske: "This was an attempt to place ourselves up to date. We felt this was particularly brilliant. Ferren works with a full recognition of the accidental values you can get into a painting. He sometimes drops liquid paint on a canvas; the drops spread by themselves. Red and Blue is pretty much that sort of thing. In general it looks highly accidental, but to those of us who know better it represents a good deal of sensitivity...
...sculptors and painters moved into the field, drawn by the new and freer techniques, they helped to accelerate the experimental pace. Among the early innovators : Painter John Ferren, who produced colored prints on plaster instead of paper; Boris Margo, who developed a new, easy-to-work print surface of sheet cellophane dissolved in acetone; Adja Junkers, who blew woodcuts up to mural-sized proportions with his 14-ft.-long triptych in which the center panel alone used eight blocks and 56 colors. Sculptor Leon ard Baskin's Man of Peace, 1953 (see cut), displayed at Brooklyn's prizewinners...
Although 1) a great many artists have been doing more or less abstract painting for 30 years, and 2) most of it can be pornographic only to the pornographic, Pundit Stein's judgment of Artist Ferren made some sense last week in Paris when the Galerie de Beaune displayed 18 of his new works. Critics found them fully abstract, only remotely Freudian, with more depth and movement than most abstract paintings. This was because Artist Ferren has the .inventiveness to paint curving forms in space which are as interesting and satisfactory to look at as, say, a page...
That Artist Ferren's new, colorful pastels thus differed from the "flat" school of abstract painting is traceable to his training. A pleasant young man with brown hair and a bright orange mustache, John Millard Ferren, 33, started as a sculptor in 1926. He learned plaster casting in a Los Angeles plaster factory, tombstone cutting in San Francisco. As aids to the problems he was trying to work out in stone, he found himself covering sheets of paper with abstract drawings. In 1930 he began to paint, in 1931 worked his way to Paris, where he found a market...