Sculptor Herbert Ferber was born in New York City in 1906 with the name of Herbert Ferber Silvers. His love of literature sparked his artistic talents, beginning with an interest in the history of... Read full biography
Sculptor Herbert Ferber was born in New York City in 1906 with the name of Herbert Ferber Silvers. His love of literature sparked his artistic talents, beginning with an interest in the history of art, which inspired him to go to museums in New York City as much as he could in the late 20s. From... Read full biography
Sculptor Herbert Ferber was born in New York City in 1906 with the name of Herbert Ferber Silvers. His love of literature sparked his artistic talents, beginning with an interest in the history of art, which inspired him to go to museums in New York City as much as he could in the late 20s. From college he went on to dental school, and it was there when he had to make anatomical drawings that he discovered he had a talent for naturalistic drawing. Ferber was encouraged by a teacher in... Read full biography
Sculptor Herbert Ferber was born in New York City in 1906 with the name of Herbert Ferber Silvers. His love of literature sparked his artistic talents, beginning with an interest in the history of art, which inspired him to go to museums in New York City as much as he could in the late 20s. From college he went on to dental school, and it was there when he had to make anatomical drawings that he discovered he had a talent for naturalistic drawing. Ferber was encouraged by a teacher in dentistry, who was a collector of work by Abraham Walkowitz, to carry on with art as an "extra-dental interest.". After a year of dental school, he began to attend the Beaux Art Institute of Design, which was distantly affiliated with the Ecole de Beaux Arts... Read full biography
Sculptor Herbert Ferber was born in New York City in 1906 with the name of Herbert Ferber Silvers. His love of literature sparked his artistic talents, beginning with an interest in the history of art, which inspired him to go to museums in New York City as much as he could in the late 20s. From college he went on to dental school, and it was there when he had to make anatomical drawings that he discovered he had a talent for naturalistic drawing. Ferber was encouraged by a teacher in dentistry, who was a collector of work by Abraham Walkowitz, to carry on with art as an "extra-dental interest.". After a year of dental school, he began to attend the Beaux Art Institute of Design, which was distantly affiliated with the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. Ferber attended at night from 1927 to 1930, working first from plaster casts and then from the model,... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (70)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
1991
Polcari, Stephen
408 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Herbert Ferber: Sculpture, Discourse, Context 1930-1960 (dissertation)
1989
Livingston, Valerie Ph.D.
402 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay)
142 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
1975
Legg, Alicia
84 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
American Art of the 20th Century
1972
Hunter, Sam
487 pages (color)
Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery
1972
Neilson, Katharine B
343 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1942-72
1972
Sandler, Irving (intro)
479 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Rubin, William S
252 pages
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ...
1963
International Assoc. of Art
119 pages
The Sculpture of Herbert Ferber (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Andersen, Wayne V
64 pages (color)
American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Hunter, Sam
83 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Three American Sculptors: Ferber, Hare, Lassaw
1959
Goossen, E.C. et. al
0 pages
Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Baur, John I H
72 pages (color)
The World of Abstract Art
1957
American Abstract Artists
167 pages (color)
Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Tate Gallery
72 pages
The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine
96 pages
El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Museum of Modern Art
80 pages
15 Americans (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Miller, Dorothy (editor)
47 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
159 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index