drohojowska-philp: ferus was started in part by walter hopps and ed kienholz. walter was very much more in touch with the way artists think than most dealers, or even curators. i mean, he really felt and thought and acted like an artist. so, he could see and feel very much what was happening right in the moment and accept it. larry bell: he was a very charismatic, charming guy. chain smoked. ed ruscha: we called him chico. no one really knew where that name came from, but we always just referred to him as chico. babitz: he was on the track of something in the art world that was kind of even--was beyond, i think, what ferus was doing. he really knew things about art that nobody else knew. joe goode: that guy could get anything he wanted in the art world and he knew what to do with it when he got it. babitz: whenever he was in the room, you paid attention to him, you know, and you wanted to hear what he had to say. glicksman: he's someone who knows and you st have a feeling thate tapped into this secret truth and just could see into the future. i don't know. droho