Walter Ferro crafted his art with the kind of passion, detail, and creative realism that is both timeless and relevant today. It is the intent of his family and estate to bring his many works into the light, so that his creative talents can be viewed and appreciated by audiences as diverse as the works themselves.
Woodcuts & Engravings
A true revivalist in an era in which most commercial illustrations were migrating to photography and other media, Ferro’s superpower continued to be an ancient and labor-intensive medium that has been around since the late 800s AD, the woodblock print, and its material “brother,” the wood engraving (William Caxton Jr., [...]
Designs & Illustrations
Ferro’s vast body of illustrative and design works - spanning from his first advertising project in the early 1950s, through the 1980s thereafter as a freelance designer, illustrator, graphic artist, and artistic director - led him around the globe, from his first home in New York City, to the Middle [...]
Watercolors
While Walter’s primary medium was the woodcut, like many artists, painting - for which he first won the John Wanamaker Gold Medal in a city-wide art competition in New York City at the age of 12 - was his first medium. Watercolors in particular afforded Ferro a relief from the [...]
Experimental Collages & Other Work
For his Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972, Ferro embarked on a series of mixed-media collages, which included not only his beloved woodcut process, but also expanded to incorporate watercolor, gouache, cut and torn paper, tape, canvas, oil paint, and other items, including in at least one work, a corn husk. They [...]