Abstract woodcut by Walter Ferro, Helium Centigrade.
Pope John Paul
Sphinx
Book cover for Gladys Schmitt’s Beowulf, published by Legacy Books (1962). Other illustrations within this book include a sword holding a hand.
Two-color woodcut print (black and dark blue) for paperback cover of Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, published by Pyramid Books in 1961.
Two-color woodcut print (black and dark green) for paperback cover of Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories, published by Scribner Press in 1981.
Published by Seabury Press (New York).
Joseph Wood Krutch’s Best of Two Worlds, published by W. Sloane Associates (New York).
Color woodcut from seven blocks.
This image was reproduced in black and white by process plates made from original print, for Ferro’s feature in American Artist magazine (1962). A pdf of Walter Ferro’s full artist feature in American Artist is available here.
This abstract woodcut was made in 1970 by Walter Ferro for inclusion in his Guggenheim Fellowship, completed in 1972.
This collage was part of works completed in conjunction with Ferro’s Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972.
In his notes, Ferro said, “this piece I slaved on-decided to mount it on plastic, then painted top passage… I collaged over it and worked on it until it responded…It also serves to prove what I am doing is not abstracting-indeed it is a very calculating and precise developing of the surface that is the heart of the effort.I am using fragile paper as well-avoiding the effete look that can trap the eye into believing some little old lady is indulging in a hobby.”
For more information about the work included in the Guggenheim application, as well as those works completed during the fellowship, please visit the ABOUT section.
This woodcut print won the Kate W. Arms Memorial Prize, from the Society of American Graphic Artists Exhibition in 1959, was reprinted for Newsweek in 1960, and featured in American Artist in 1962. A pdf of Walter Ferro’s full artist feature in American Artist is available here.
In 1965 the woodcut was printed for Newsweek International, a copy of which is available here.
This woodcut was exhibited with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) traveling show in 1966, and also printed in the UNICEF annual calendar.
An image of Walter Ferro’s woodcut printed within the 1966 UNICEF calendar with an accompanying poem by Pope St. Gregory I is available here. A woodcut of a clown for the cover of the same 1966 UNICEF calendar is available here.
This woodcut of Walter Ferro’s depicting a silhouette of children playing on a tree swing next to a graveyard was printed in his artist feature by William Caxton Jr. for American Artist in 1962. A pdf of Walter Ferro’s full artist feature in American Artist is available here.
Published by All Saints Press.
