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JOHN FULTON FOLINSBEE

American, 1892-1972

"Mule Barn", 1928-1929

oil on canvas
signed lower right, "John Folinsbee"
24 1/2 x 30 inches

  • Provenance: Estate of the artist; Private collection, Princeton; Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine; Private Collection, Connecticut
  • Exhibited: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University Gallery, May 4–18, 1929; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Art Club, [Group Exhibition], November 14–December 1, 1929; Washington, Connecticut, The Gunnery School, "Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by John Folinsbee", 1976, no. 42; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Newman Galleries, "John F. Folinsbee", 1977, no. 23; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Newman Galleries, "John F. Folinsbee: Following His Own Course", March 2–April 7, 1990, no. 43; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Newman Galleries, "John Folinsbee: Another View", April 8–30, 1994, no. 25 (label on the reverse); New Hope, Pennsylvania, Gratz Gallery, "19th & 20th Century American Paintings", 2007.
  • Literature: Appraisal of Pictures, Estate of John F. Folinsbee, June 20, 1972, (Boston: Vose Galleries), 1972, #555; Stricker, Michele Pavon, "John Folinsbee: Following His Own Course", (Philadelphia: Newman Galleries), 1990, exhibition catalogue, p. 16, b/w ill., #43; "Pennsylvania Painters and the New Hope Circle", (New Hope, Pennsylvania: Gratz Gallery), 2007, exhibition catalogue, color ill.; Jensen, Kirsten M., "Folinsbee Considered", (Hudson Hills Press, 2013), p. 74, color ill., p. 252, cat entry.
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