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042
Beth and Joan
1922
Oil on canvas
40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.28 cm)
Signed lower left: John F. Folinsbee / 1922
Private collection
Provenance
Collection Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee
Private collection
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, 97th Annual Exhibition (Winter), November 17–December 17, 1922, no. 276.
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Contemporary American Paintings, –September 1923, no. 27.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 118th Annual Exhibition, February 4–March 25, 1923, no. 354.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 17th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, June 8, 1923, no. 64.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Autumn Exhibition, October 1923.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 16.
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, The Art of John Folinsbee, July–August 2001, no. 5.
Published References
Paolino, Tammy. "Rendering a World Full of Hope." Review of John Folinsbee, by Peter Cook. Time Off (Princeton Packet), May 13-22, 1994, p. 18, b/w ill.
Culver, Michael. "The Art of John Folinsbee." American Art Review 13, no. 4 (August 2001), p. 111, color ill.
Notes
The New York Times review of the work, while on exhibition at Grand Central Galleries, remarked that it "is full of the bewitching complacency of children." (9 Dec 1923, X7)
Record last updated March 11, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Jensen, Kirsten M. ""Beth and Joan, 1922 (JFF.042)." In John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonné. www.johnfolinsbee.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=042 (accessed on May 19, 2024).