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Mary Lou Ferbert

d. 2023

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  1. Epimedium Leaf by Mary Lou Ferbert, Image 2.

    Mary Lou Ferbert

    Epimedium Leaf, 2022 Gift of Wm. Busta and Joan Tompkins

    Lithograph with Cine Colle

    12.75 x 10 in (32.39 x 25.4 cm)

  2. Cleveland State University by Mary Lou Ferbert, Image 1.

    Mary Lou Ferbert

    Cleveland State University, 2021 Gift of the Cleveland Guardians

    Watercolor

    36 x 35.5 in (91.44 x 90.17 cm)

    $1,200

  3. Lambs Quarters & Gabion I by Mary Lou Ferbert, Image 2.

    Mary Lou Ferbert

    Lambs Quarters & Gabion I, 2019 Gift of Annie Wainwright

    Watercolor

    12.5 x 12.5 in (31.75 x 31.75 cm)

    $1,000

  4. Sunflower by Mary Lou Ferbert, Image 1.

    Mary Lou Ferbert

    Sunflower, 1995

    11 x 11 in (27.94 x 27.94 cm)

  5. Lambs Quarters and Gabion II by Mary Lou Ferbert, Image 2.

    Mary Lou Ferbert

    Lambs Quarters and Gabion II

  6. Sidewalk XIV; Location: Aberdeen Road, Rocky River, Ohio by Mary Lou Ferbert, Image 1.

    Mary Lou Ferbert

    Sidewalk XIV; Location: Aberdeen Road, Rocky River, Ohio

For over 30 years, Mary Lou Ferbert prowled Cleveland’s Flats, finding inspiration for her paintings in that “throbbing heart of the city that once was a power engine of the industrial revolution” [from her Artist’s Statement]. As the Flats changed, her work did as well. In 1985 she began her “Urban Botany Series” which focused on wildflowers that adapt and survive in an often hostile, biologically-sterile cityscape. Recently, she has embarked on a new series of large paintings that present these innovative wildflowers in a scale commensurate with their strength, survival capacities…and their beauty. These paintings comprise her “Hero Series”. In 2001, she had a solo exhibition at The Bonfoey Company entitled Heroic Urban Wildflowers. Images from the show are included in an article with the same title in Watercolor Magazine (Winter 2002 Issue).

Ferbert has had solo exhibitions at The Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, Ohio (2001, 1994, 1989, 1981), Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee (1997), the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (1993-1994), Gallery Madison 90, New York City (1987) and others. She received the Walker Memorial Award in The National Association of Women Artists 112th Annual Exhibition in June, 2001 at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY. Her work can be found in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, El Paso Museum of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rutgers University, and many others.
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