One-color woodcut print (black and white) for interior illustration of Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories, published by Scribner Press in 1981.
A woodcut made for the American Oil Company magazine, Aramco World.
During his tenure from 1951-1955 at the New York City-based ad agency Abbott Kimball Co., Inc. (1937 – present), Walter Ferro made four woodcuts in this series of monks in various scenes for Schieffelin & Co.’s La Grande Chartreuse advertisement, which ran from November 1953 to January 1954 in the following magazines: New Yorker, Gourmet, Cosmopolitan, Fortnight, Saturday Review, Promenade, Esquire, House & Garden, and House Beautiful. This engraving is one from the series.
A woodcut of a river with boats and a town in the background for Gourmet Magazine’s July 1966 article “Of Wine and the River.” A pdf of the woodcut within the magazine spread from 1966 is available here.
A sketch for The Solar Clock, a monumental functioning solar clock commissioned by Mobil Oil Company for an open-air market in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Past and current travel articles on the city reference the work.
For more information in Walter Ferro’s own words regarding the corresponding public art work for which this woodcut was made, visit the Walter’s Writings sub-category in the TEXTS section of this site.
Design for the December 1957 cover of Aramco World Magazine, for which Walter Ferro was the art director, from 1956 – 1966.
Design for the July 1958 cover of Aramco World Magazine, for which Walter Ferro was the art director, from 1956 – 1966. A pdf of the Aramco World cover and Table of Contents, from July 1958, is available here.
During his tenure from 1951-1955 at the New York City-based ad agency Abbott Kimball Co., Inc. (1937 – present), Walter Ferro made four woodcuts in this series of monks in various scenes for Schieffelin & Co.’s La Grande Chartreuse advertisement, which ran from November 1953 to January 1954 in the following magazines: New Yorker, Gourmet, Cosmopolitan, Fortnight, Saturday Review, Promenade, Esquire, House & Garden, and House Beautiful. This engraving is one from the series.
“The Boy Who Was Too Old for Christmas,” woodcut design for December 1971 issue of Woman’s Day, for which Walter Ferro illustrated many works in the 1970s.
During his tenure from 1951-1955 at the New York City-based ad agency Abbott Kimball Co., Inc. (1937 – present), Walter Ferro made four woodcuts in this series of monks in various scenes for Schieffelin & Co.’s La Grande Chartreuse advertisement, which ran from November 1953 to January 1954 in the following magazines: New Yorker, Gourmet, Cosmopolitan, Fortnight, Saturday Review, Promenade, Esquire, House & Garden, and House Beautiful. This engraving is one from the series.
A black and white woodcut drawing for The Solar Clock, a monumental functioning solar clock commissioned by Mobil Oil Company for an open-air market in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Past and current travel articles on the city reference the work.
For more information in Walter Ferro’s own words regarding the corresponding public art work for which this woodcut was made, visit the Walter’s Writings sub-category in the TEXTS section of this site.
An image of the completed public art work, Solar Clock, is available here below.
This woodcut of a cutting board with bread loaves, potatoes, pepper, a carrot stock with stem, and a knife was made for Catholic Digest, for which Walter Ferro illustrated from 1962 – 1963. For the 1962 issue of American Artist magazine, this work was reprinted.
Walter Ferro’s Augury work was recognized in 1953 for the Kenneth Haynes Miller Award as part of the Audubon Artists Annual Exhibition.
A woodcut of a wine glass and cup within a field with mountains in the background for Gourmet Magazine’s July 1966 article “Of Wine and the River.”
This woodcut of a table setting with branches, honey, dill pickles, and salt was made for Aramco World magazine, for which Walter Ferro worked as art director and illustrator from 1956-1966.
