Tom Ferderbar

I wanted to become a photographer at the age of 12, when my sister Grace gave me a Kodak Box Brownie camera for Christmas. (I still have that camera.) Since our family was quite poor, I built my first enlarger with an oatmeal box, while that same box camera was used as its lens.

After graduation from college, a stint in the army followed by photography school, I opened an advertising photography studio in 1954. For over four decades my staff and I earned numerous local, regional and national awards for our achievements in photography, including several "best of show" honors.

In 1958 I studied with renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams at his Yosemite National Park workshop in 1980, while still operating my advertising photography studio.

My fine art work is shown here as my Yosemite National Park series, Grand Teton National Park series, Other Nice Things series, and Route 66 series (which encompasses 8 collections, one for each state.)

Graduated High School, Milwaukee WI 1947
Graduated University of Wisconsin, Madison 1952
Graduated Layton School of Art, Milwaukee 1954

Franklin Mint Museum, Franklin Center PA. Route 66 August 2000
Tom Ferderbar @.Patrick Gourley, Glendale CA Yosemite National Park December 2002
H2O Gallery, Milwaukee WI Route 66 June 2005
VP Gallery, Milwaukee WI Yosemite National Park October 2007
Downey Museum of Art, Downey CA Yosemite National Park July 2008
Mariposa County Arts Council, Mariposa CA Yosemite National Park June 2009
The Iron Horse Hotel, Milwaukee WI Yosemite National Park April 2010
The Iron Horse Hotel, Milwaukee WI Route 66 Jan 2011
The Delafield Arts Center, Delafield WI Yosemite and Route 66 May 2011
David Barnett Gallery Tetons, Yosemite, Route 66 July 2012-2015
No Studios, Milwaukee WI Yosemite and the Tetons June 2018

Prints in museum collections _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Milwaukee Art Museum Black and white print of plane and birds
Milwaukee Art Museum 10 color prints from the Route 66 work
Milwaukee Art Museum 2 black and white prints of Milwaukee in the “50s
Plymouth Art Center, WI. don't recal...