This collage was part of works completed in conjunction with Ferro’s Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972.

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.


Self portrait drawing by Walter Ferro.


Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Time Before This, published by William Sloane (New York) in 1962.


Published by Seabury Press (1971).


3-color (red, purple, black) woodcut for paperback cover of the New Testament, published by Guild Press (1960).


Stuart Jesse’s Hold April, published by McGraw-Hill, NY (1962).


Woodcut for the cover of Romulus Linney’s book, Heathen Valley, published by Atheneum (1962).



Jesse Stuart’s My Land Has A Voice, published by McGraw-Hill; First Edition.


Loren Eiseley’s The Invisible Pyramid [First Edition], published by Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York).


Interior design illustration by Walter Ferro for Loren Eiseley’s The Invisible Pyramid.  Book cover for The Invisible Pyramid is available here.


Oliver Hoare’s book The Unity of Islamic Art: An Exhibition to Inaugurate the Islamic Art Gallery of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies was designed by Ferro, and published by the King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1405 AH/1985 AD.

Edited by John Hays.  Published by New York University Press. The book jacket’s description is available below.

Interior book jacket desscription of The Genius of Arab Civilization, designed by Walter Ferro.


Woodcut print created for the cover of Marie Chay’s Pilgrim’s Pride, “a novel about a happy emigrant family,” published by Dodd, Mead, & Company (New York: 1961).


Walter Ferro’s 1-color woodcut of an owl was reprinted 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.


Frederick Buechner’s The Hungering Dark, published by Seabury Press (1969).


Book design with woodcut print for Gene Caesar’s Mark of the Hunter, published by William Sloane Associates (1953).


Woodcut of a forest with view of a log and red, yellow, and orange light through the darkened silhouette’s of trees, for an interior spread of Hemingway’s Dick Adams Stories, published by Scribner Press (1981).


Maryse Choisy’s A Month Among Men, published by Pyramid Books (1962).