Lot 31
  • 31

John Fulton Folinsbee 1892 - 1972

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • John Fulton Folinsbee
  • Trenton Platform
  • signed John Folinsbee (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 32 by 40 inches
  • (81.3 by 101.6 cm)
  • Painted in 1929.

Provenance

Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee (the artist's wife)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1986

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Carnegie Institute, 28th International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, October-December 1929
New York, National Arts Club, Members Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, January-February 1930, no. 37
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Woodmere Art Museum, John Folinsbee and American Modernism, November-March 2011, p. 8, illustrated in color

Literature

Mark D. Mitchell, " An Old Philadelphia Master Gets a New Look at Woodmere Exhibit," Chestnut Hill Local, vol. 52, December 2010, pp. 1-2
"'John Folinsbee and American Modernism' at Woodmere Art Museum to March 6," Antiques & Arts, January 2011, p. 50
Edward Higgins, "John Folinsbee," ICON, January 2011, illustrated in color on the cover
Kristen M. Jensen, "John Folinsbee and American Modernism," American Art Review, vol. 23, February 2011, p. 92, illustrated in color
Kristen M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered, Easthampton, Massachusetts, 2013, no. 582, pp. 75-6, 107, 120, 255, 297-98, 310, illustrated in color as a detail pp. 186-87; illustrated in color pl. 33, p. 188; illustrated in color p. 255