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Theme: portrait »
Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
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
1922 NAD Winter
National Academy of Design, New York, 97th Annual Exhibition (Winter), November 17–December 17, 1922, no. 276.
1923 Rochester
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Contemporary American Paintings, –September 1923, no. 27.
1923 PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 118th Annual Exhibition, February 4–March 25, 1923, no. 354.
1923 Albright-Knox Buffalo
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.
1923 RISD
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Autumn Exhibition, October 1923.
1982 NJSM
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The Paintings of John Folinsbee, October 30, 1982–January 9, 1983, no. 16.
2001 Ogunquit
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, The Art of John Folinsbee, July–August 2001, no. 5.
Published References
NY Times 1923e
"Art Exhibitions for the Week." New York Times, December 9, 1923, x7.
Cook 1994
Cook, Peter G. John Folinsbee. New York: Kubaba Books, 1994, p. 133, color ill.
Paolino 1994
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 2001
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 April 30, 2024).