“color demands control. You can’t slap the colors on over one another, so the color always kept a certain element of discipline in my work… I was not one of the red-hot brush throwers” - Ferren

paintings spanning the 1930s to the late 1960s

“these paintings carry the memory of Paris, the urgency of New York, and Ferren’s own belief in the quiet authority of color and control. They are works of balance and passage”